Torjer Olsen

Biographic Data

ID5187641
NAMETorjer Olsen
GIVEN NAMESTorjer
FAMILY NAMEOlsen
SIGNATUREOLSEN T
AFFILIATIONSNorce, Norway
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS13
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • Performing nationalism – Sámi culture and diversity in early education in Norway

    Open AccessHilde Danielsen, Torjer A Olsen et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Educational…2023

    Kindergartens are institutional arenas for raising the nation through educating children in an every-day setting. With the implementation of the Framework Plan of 2017 (FP), the notion of “Sàmi culture” became part of the mandatory curriculum in all Norwegian kindergartens for the first time. All kindergartens are now expected to ensure that children develop respect for, and solidarity with, the diversity of Sàmi culture. This paper based on poli…

  • Epilogue

    Open AccessTorjer A Olsen, Torjer Olsen et al.CHAPTERIndigenous Research Methodologies…2021

    This collection of contributions addressing Indigenous research methodologies in Sámi and global contexts organically come to stress the responsibility of Indigenous research.This book grew out of years of collaboration.It started with a workshop at the Sámi University of Applied Sciences in Kautokeino.More correctly, in Guovdageaidnu.Using the Sámi name of a Sámi place is an important part of Indigenizing our research.At the Guovdageaidnu worksh…

  • Contemporary Indigenous Research within Sámi and Global Indigenous Studies Contexts

    Open AccessP K Virtanen, Torjer A Olsen et al.CHAPTERIndigenous Research Methodologies…2021

    This chapter addresses the genealogy of Indigenous studies, and how it is conceptualized and practised in the Sámi context. It discusses the inclusion of Indigenous knowledges and Indigenous ways of doing research in academia, as well as the role of Indigenous research methodologies in this effort. We link our chapter to larger academic Indigenous discussions on the concepts of ‘knowledge’, ‘decolonization’, ‘research’ and ‘indigenization’. At th…

  • Indigenous Research Methodologies in Sámi and Global Contexts

    Open AccessPirjo Kristiina Virtanen, Pigga Keskitalo et al.BOOKIndigenous Research Methodologies…2021Cited by: 11References: 30

    This book addresses the conceptualization and practice of Indigenous research methodologies especially in Sámi and North European academic contexts. It examines the meaning of Sámi research and research methodologies, practical levels of doing Indigenous research today in different contexts, as well as global debates in Indigenous research. The contributors present place-specific and relational Sámi research approaches as well as reciprocal metho…

  • Indigenising Education: Scales, Interfaces and Acts of Citizenship in Sápmi

    Open AccessHilde Sollid, Torjer A Olsen et al.ARTICLEJunctures The Journal for…2019Cited by: 2References: 4

    As Indigenous people reclaim their position after centuries of oppression, the tensions between Indigenous needs and national demands surface. This is also the case of the Indigenous Sámi in Norway. After a long period of colonisation, recognition of the indigenous Sámi people and their language and culture is replacing the politics of erasure. In this process, the educational system is the institution where this new direction can reach the farth…