Report from the International Steering Committee on Cross‐Cultural Education in the North: Influencing Public Policy‐‐Education in the Circumpolar North

The Sa´mi School System in Norway and International Cooperation

“…In order to accomplish this, educational institutions would have to be set up to produce textbooks, establish and develop the curriculum, conduct research, and provide teacher education directed particularly toward the situation of indigenous peoples. Such an infrastructure was built up in Alaska, Canada, in Greenland and in the Sámi area in Scandinavia (Demmert, 1986;Demmert & Keskitalo, 1998). The Greenlanders have made the most progress in this area during the period following the introduction of home rule.…”