For more information, please contact:
Mary Caroline Rowan – marycarolinerowan@gmail.com

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Call for contributions to an edited volume

Considering circumpolar perspectives concerning Inuit and Sami early childhood education

Co- Editors Ylva Jannok Nutti & Laila Aleksandersen Nutti (Sami allaskuvla)
Mary Caroline Rowan, (University of New Brunswick)

This proposed volume presents work of researchers engaged with early childhood education in circumpolar places and with Indigenous perspectives. It sets out to consider the question: how are educators, curriculum planners, policy makers, professors, researchers, who work in Sami and Inuit places; engaging with children, families, colleagues, in ways, which are informed by local knowledge’s and languages? Over the past twenty-five years organized early childhood frameworks, programs and services, curricula and training programs have been developing throughout the circumpolar world. Never have writer’s from across the geo-political landscapes that comprise the Arctic had the occasion to connect within a volume dedicated to circumpolar perspectives on early childhood education. This proposed book offers to engage with theories on Indigenous early childhood education as a way to proliferate understandings with processes of decolonization and revitalization concerning Inuit and Sami languages, ways of knowing and being, and values; as they connect with children and families in circumpolar early childhood education.

You are invited to submit an abstract for this edited volume focused on early childhood education in circumpolar places by May 31, 2014. Indication about acceptance of abstracts will be issued on or before July 1, 2014. The manuscript is due by October 15, 2014; with feedback by November 15, 2014. The final version of your chapter with all edits completed is due on January 19, 2015.

Please note that Jan Henry Keskitalo, Vice President of the Indigenous University of the Arctic has agreed to write a forward to the volume.

Background information for authors

The abstract

• Should be 250 words or less and include a working title for the chapter, the author’s current e-mail address and relevant biographical details.

The manuscript

• Text and references should total not more than 6000, consistent with the Publication Manual (6th Edition) of the American Psychological Association.

• Chapters should be sent as an email attachment to the email addresses below on or before the due dates.

• Authors are to obtain releases for use of photographs (if any) prior to submission.

• Please include a brief biographical sketch including authors full name, title, professional affiliation, and other relevant information, such as
acknowledgements, grant support or funding agency.

• It is expected that authors will not submit the material contained in the chapter to other possible publishers.

• Text should be double-spaced in a font such as Times New Roman, size 12.

• Please submit your manuscript as a Microsoft Word file. PDFs are NOT acceptable.

• All manuscripts should include an abstract of 100—150 words

• A reference list contains only references that are cited in the text. Its accuracy and completeness are the responsibility of the author(s).

• If the manuscript contains tables, figures, illustrations or photographs, they should where the author requires them, in the document.

• Final versions of chapter should be sent on or before the due date (December 15, 2014) to the co-editors along with an author bio of no more than 100 words.

• Chapters need to be submitted with the appropriate permission form(s).

Submission email address

To submit your abstract and chapter please e-mail to Mary Caroline Rowan

Contact Information

Mary Caroline Rowan – marycarolinerowan@gmail.com

Co-editor Biographies

Ylva Jannok Nutti is associate professor of Education at the Sami University College in Kautokeino. She attained her PhD in Education in January 2011. Her dissertation research examined teachers’ implementation of culturally based teaching in Sámi preschools and schools using action research: work which continued with a post-doctoral fellowship.. Jannok Nutti has led several projects guided by Indigenous Theory and employing Critical Utopian Action Research Methodologies. In these projects children, pupils, parents, Elders, preschool teachers and teachers implemented culturally based change in preschool, in school, and in the community. Ylva began her career teaching in a Sámi school. Today this work continues in teacher education. She has experience editing culturally based teaching books, as well as, a book by Sámi youth. Jannok Nutti has published articles and chapters about Indigenous Education. Her main interest is in working with stakeholders in adopting approaches to education grounded in Indigenous traditional knowledge and learning approaches within Indigenous Culture.


Mary Caroline Rowan is a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar, PhD student at the University of New Brunswick, and part-time faculty at Concordia University in Montreal. She completed her masters degree at the School of Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria in November 2011, defending her thesis entitled: "Exploring the possibilities of learning stories as a meaningful approach to early childhood education in Nunavik". Carol has an article published in the Canadian Journal of Native Education; chapters in two separate volumes published by Peter Lang and have co-written several articles with Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw and Fikile Nxumalo of the University of Victoria. Her long standing main interest is in working with Inuit Elders, children, parents, and educators, in adopting approaches to childcare programs grounded in Inuit ways of knowing and being.

Laila Aleksandersen Nutti is assistant professor of Education at the Sami University College in Kautokeino. She teaches pedagogy and drama in early childhood education. She has worked as a preschool teacher in Sami kindergarten for 15 years, led teaching aid projects and taught at the college level. In the fall of 2011 Laila completed her MA in early childhood education involving joik in kindergarten. She has experience editing a collection of books about traditional work in the nursery, and is currently in the process of preparing two articles for publication one in Sami and the other in Norwegian.