Current active course description (last updated 2024/25)
Social Studies 2A - Sámi and indigenous perspectives in social studies
SAM2003
Current active course description (last updated 2024/25)
Social Studies 2A - Sámi and indigenous perspectives in social studies
SAM2003
Introduction to social studies didactical approaches to teaching about and for Saemie and indigenous peoples in a Norwegian context.
What sort of knowledge about Saemie perspectives, experiences and history do you need working as a social studies teacher? This course provides an introduction to histories about Saemie in Norwegian Saepmie, and the relations between Saemie and majority Norwegians. You will gain insight into social studies didactical approaches to teaching about and for Sámi and indigenous peoples.
Admission to the study programme.
Knowledge
The student:
- has knowledge about the history of the Norwegianization policy.
- knows of important theoretical terms regarding ethnicity, colonialism, nationalism and minorization.
- has knowledge about aesthetical learning processes in social studies.
Skills
The student:
- is able to use select practical and/or aesthetical didactical methods for teaching.
- is able to retrieve knowledge and resource material for teaching about Sámi and indigenous peoples in ways which are adapted to their own local community.
- is able to reflect about their own professional practice from an indigenous perspective.
General competence
The student:
- is able to apply knowledge and theoretical terms from the course in written and oral reflection.
- is able to exchange views and experiences with others, thus contributing to developing their own practice and the practice of others. .
No tuition fees. Semester fees and cost of course literature apply. Students must have access to adequate technical equipment.
Elective
Lectures, group work, student presentations.
Submissions: There are two work assignments (AK) during the semester.
Evaluation using mid-term and final surveys. Students are also encouraged to participate in the central quality surveys.
Composite assessment (SV). All parts must be approved/passed before you get a grade.
- Compulsory participation in lessons, a minimum of 80 % attendance. Approved/not approved. Counts 0/100 percent toward the final grade.
- Work assignments (AK): Two assignments will be given as work requirements during the semester. There may be both individual tasks and group tasks. Assessment expression: Approved/not approved. Counts 0/100 percent toward the final grade.
- Semester assignment (O): Individual semester assignment. Assessment terms A-F. Counts100 percent of final grade.
All aids permitted.
Exception:
Generating text using Chat-GTP or other artificial intelligence and submitting it as one's own work, partly or fully, will be counted as cheating.
Overlap refers to a similarity between courses with the same content. Therefore, you will receive the following reduction in credits if you have taken the courses listed below:
SAM1015 - Social studies in today's education - 7.5 credits
SAM1007 - Social Studies 1, 5-10 - 1 credits
Course language
Norwegian
Credits
7.5
Responsible faculty
The Faculty of Education and Arts
Course coordinator
