University of Lapland

About: University of Lapland is a education organization based out in Rovaniemi, Finland. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Arctic & Indigenous. The organization has 665 authors who have published 1870 publications receiving 39129 citations. The organization is also known as: University of Rovaniemi & Lapin yliopisto.

Early child care and education in Finland

Abstract: 1. How do the Finnish family policy and early education system support the well-being, happiness, and success of families and children? Part I: The realisation and evaluation of early childhood education in Finland 2. Evaluating the quality of the child care in Finland 3. Individual plans for children in transition to pre-school: a case study in one Finnish day-care centre 4. Sami education in Finland Part II: Perspectives on children's well-being 5. Having, loving, and being: children's narrated well-being in Finnish day care centres 6. Cortisol levels and children's orientation in day care 7. Bullying in early educational settings 8. Young children's well-being in Finnish stepfamilies 9. Care of the other's selfhood: a view on child care and education through Heidegger's analytic of Dasein Part III: Special viewpoints on early childhood education, care, and research in Finland 10. Accelerating early language development with multi-sensory training 11. How were the pupils dressed in a country village in northern Finland in 1909-1939? 12. The child diary as a research tool 13. Experts or good educators - or both? The development of early childhood educators' expertise in Finland

Can you put your finger on it? The effects of writing modality on Finnish students’ recollection

Abstract: Digitalisation has changed and broadened the ways people write. In higher education, typing is a common practice both for note-taking and for completing written assignments, relegating pen and pape...

ILO Convention No. 169 and the governance of indigenous identity in Finland: Recent developments

Abstract: The Sami are often described as the only indigenous people of the European Union. They inhabit an area now known as, and claimed by, Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola peninsula of Russia. Recent...

The Prospects of Ethnography at the Sámi School

Abstract: Ethnographic research has become a salient qualitative research method for studying the phenomena of education and schooling and when the aim is to reach the authentic reality. But how applicable is this method to indigenous peoples’ research, such as the Sami? What is the ethnographer’s role at the Sami School? The purpose of this article is to 1) contemplate the ethnographic research approach in school research, 2) review its applicability to studying Sami education by using one ethnographic research process as an example, and 3) to create a picture of the Sami School with the ethnographic research. Ethnography seems to suit well indigenous studies if the aim is to genuinely understand the target, like the Sami School in the sample research, together with the research partners and from their point of view – especially, if the researcher is also a bearer of the Sami culture.

Joint Inversion for Surface Accumulation Rate and Geothermal Heat Flow From Ice Penetrating Radar Observations at Dome A, East Antarctica. Part I: Model Description, Data Constraints, and Inversion Results

Abstract: Ice-penetrating radar data contain a wealth of information about the bed and internal structure of the ice sheet. While these data have long been used to diagnose the presence of basal water or inf...