S憳可 Education

Keskitalo (teacher training, Sami U. College, Norway), Maatta (educational psychology) and Uusiautti (both U. of Lapland, Finland) contribute to the understanding of educating indigenous peoples by presenting research results concerning the native people of Europe's far north. Writing for educators, administrators, and parents of Sami students, they discuss the roots of Sami education, Sami research, special traits of Sami education, Sami language teaching, and an eye to the future of Sami education. The articles have been published in peer-refereed international journals. They are not indexed. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Pigga Keskitalo is an associate professor at the teacher training department of the Sami University College in Kautokeino (Norway). She did her doctoral research about Sami education at the University of Lapland (Finland). She has been working as a teacher educator for several years and has published numerous articles and books about Sami education.
Kaarina Maatta is the professor of Educational Psychology at the Faculty of Education and a vice-rector of the University of Lapland (Finland). During her career, she has supervised over 50 doctoral theses and published numerous peer-reviewed articles and books. Her personal research interests cover love, human strengths, teacher education and early childhood education, and supervision of doctoral theses and student guidance.
Satu Uusiautti works as a specialist at the University of Lapland (Finland), and as a post doctoral researcher in the research project ?Love-based Leadership – An Interdisciplinary Approach? (http://www.ulapland.fi/lbleadership). Her personal research interests are positive psychology and human strengths, happiness, success, and well-being in life in general, but especially in school surroundings and diverse educational contexts.