The Swedish Missionary Society and Sámi Schooling, c. 1835–1920
This open access book offers a thorough examination of the most important actor in schooling children from the Indigenous Sámi during the nineteenth century, namely the Swedish Missionary Society (SMS). In the late 1830s, the SMS created its first schools for Sámi children and youth in small rural...
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| description | This open access book offers a thorough examination of the most important actor in schooling children from the Indigenous Sámi during the nineteenth century, namely the Swedish Missionary Society (SMS). In the late 1830s, the SMS created its first schools for Sámi children and youth in small rural villages in the northern inlands of Sweden. The missionary schools enrolled several thousand children in the approximately eighty-year-period they operated, for many decades being the predominant school for the Sámi. The impulse behind the creation of the SMS came from evangelical movements such as British Methodism, which helped to initiate the Stockholm-based society in 1835, and aided the startup of a school in the Swedish colony of Saint-Barthélemy in the West Indies. The society was supported by private donations, as well as financial aid and supervision from the Swedish Evangelical-Lutheran state church. It kept in operation between five to ten schools and orphanages until the so-called ‘nomadic school’ reform in 1913, when the missionary schools were either shut down, modified to become Swedish primary schools, or subsumed under the new and expanding state-governed nomadic school system. By examining school practice aimed at Sámi pupils in Sweden, this book provides valuable insights into the overall organisation and curriculum of the missionary schools, their ideological driving forces, and their relation to global developments and the ongoing formation of the Swedish primary school system. Such knowledge helps deepen our understanding of the long-term organisation of Sámi education in Sweden, and more broadly within the Nordic countries. Through its analysis, this book seeks to develop the history of missionary education, as well as research into settler colonial and Indigenous schooling. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1684352025-10-21T05:35:04Z The Swedish Missionary Society and Sámi Schooling, c. 1835–1920 Norlin, Björn Open Access Theology Swedish Church Sami Indigenous history Missionary history Schools Swedish Missionary Society Children Settler colonialism British Methodist Evangelical Swedish colony Orphanage School system Sami education Missionary schooling School practice Nordic thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNB History of education thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general::QRAX History of religion thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history This open access book offers a thorough examination of the most important actor in schooling children from the Indigenous Sámi during the nineteenth century, namely the Swedish Missionary Society (SMS). In the late 1830s, the SMS created its first schools for Sámi children and youth in small rural villages in the northern inlands of Sweden. The missionary schools enrolled several thousand children in the approximately eighty-year-period they operated, for many decades being the predominant school for the Sámi. The impulse behind the creation of the SMS came from evangelical movements such as British Methodism, which helped to initiate the Stockholm-based society in 1835, and aided the startup of a school in the Swedish colony of Saint-Barthélemy in the West Indies. The society was supported by private donations, as well as financial aid and supervision from the Swedish Evangelical-Lutheran state church. It kept in operation between five to ten schools and orphanages until the so-called ‘nomadic school’ reform in 1913, when the missionary schools were either shut down, modified to become Swedish primary schools, or subsumed under the new and expanding state-governed nomadic school system. By examining school practice aimed at Sámi pupils in Sweden, this book provides valuable insights into the overall organisation and curriculum of the missionary schools, their ideological driving forces, and their relation to global developments and the ongoing formation of the Swedish primary school system. Such knowledge helps deepen our understanding of the long-term organisation of Sámi education in Sweden, and more broadly within the Nordic countries. Through its analysis, this book seeks to develop the history of missionary education, as well as research into settler colonial and Indigenous schooling. 2025-10-21T05:35:03Z 2025-10-21T05:35:03Z 2025-10-20T11:17:13Z 2025 book ONIX_20251020T130859_9783031963070_78 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/107712 9783031963070 9783031963063 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/168435 eng Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies; History; History (R0) open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/107712/1/9783031963070.pdf Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-031-96307-0 10.1007/978-3-031-96307-0 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a 9783031963070 9783031963063 Palgrave Macmillan 279 Cham open access |
| spellingShingle | Open Access Theology Swedish Church Sami Indigenous history Missionary history Schools Swedish Missionary Society Children Settler colonialism British Methodist Evangelical Swedish colony Orphanage School system Sami education Missionary schooling School practice Nordic thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNB History of education thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general::QRAX History of religion thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history Norlin, Björn The Swedish Missionary Society and Sámi Schooling, c. 1835–1920 |
| title | The Swedish Missionary Society and Sámi Schooling, c. 1835–1920 |
| title_full | The Swedish Missionary Society and Sámi Schooling, c. 1835–1920 |
| title_fullStr | The Swedish Missionary Society and Sámi Schooling, c. 1835–1920 |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Swedish Missionary Society and Sámi Schooling, c. 1835–1920 |
| title_short | The Swedish Missionary Society and Sámi Schooling, c. 1835–1920 |
| title_sort | swedish missionary society and sami schooling c 1835 1920 |
| topic | Open Access Theology Swedish Church Sami Indigenous history Missionary history Schools Swedish Missionary Society Children Settler colonialism British Methodist Evangelical Swedish colony Orphanage School system Sami education Missionary schooling School practice Nordic thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNB History of education thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general::QRAX History of religion thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history |
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