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dc.contributor.authorPaulgaard, Gry
dc.contributor.authorSaus, Merete
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-12T07:41:52Z
dc.date.available2023-09-12T07:41:52Z
dc.date.issued2023-07-26
dc.description.abstractThe authors of this paper share a common background from the Northern Norway region, a rural county and the largest and least populated county of Norway. The region is characterised by high out-migration, lower educational levels, and higher drop-out rates from secondary education than in other regions of Norway. Limited educational provision makes it necessary for many young people in rural areas to leave home to take a secondary education. Large geographical distances make it difficult to commute on a daily basis. Historically, this area has been the most culturally diverse in Norway, as the domicile of the Sámi Indigenous people and the national minority, the Kven, and the Norwegian ethnic group. This Arctic region is characterised by the encounter with three ethnicities, and traditional industries such as fishing, farming and herding, combined with modern industry and knowledge-intensive enterprises.<p> <p>Despite this multi-ethnic and geographically diverse society, the schools are still struggling with the unit-oriented curriculum, ignoring the diversity among the pupils. When the multi-ethnic society is not embedded in the education system, nor given in the adolescents’ hometown, the education system will be exogenous and will appear foreign. In this paper, we use available public statistics and a literature review, inspired by autoethnographic methodology—whereby authors use their experiences as a person and a long-time researcher in a field to describe, analyse and understand the phenomenon—to argue for a local- and contextual oriented schools to make meaningful and practical improvements to rural education.en_US
dc.identifier.citationPaulgaard G, Saus M. Diverse Diversity. Contradictions and Challenges in Norwegian Rural Education.. Australian and International Journal of Rural Education (AIJRE). 2023;33(2)en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2171821
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.47381/aijre.v33i2.546
dc.identifier.issn1036-0026
dc.identifier.issn1839-7387
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/30929
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherThe Australian and International Journal of Rural Educationen_US
dc.relation.journalAustralian and International Journal of Rural Education (AIJRE)
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2023 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)en_US
dc.titleDiverse Diversity. Contradictions and Challenges in Norwegian Rural Education.en_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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