MPCT304-4 (Educational research)
Professor Jens Ivar Nergård
associate professor Paul Opdal

Professor Jens-Ivar Nergård’ lectures:

Lecture 1, Monday Oct. 14th 0915: The Colonizer and the Colonized - The interplay of world view in Saami colony history.

Lecture 2, Friday Oct. 25th, 1215: The silent Revolution - Laestadianism and the sacralisation of Saami tradition

Lecture 3, Monday Nov. 11th, 1215: Cultural diversity and the conception of reality - Modern professionals as interpretators of cultural pain.

Literature:

* Ernst Arbman: “Shamanism” in Ecstacy. Or religious trance. p. 605-631

Henry Minde: Fornorskinga av samer- hvorfor, hvordan og hvilke følger.

An English version will appear early September (22 pages)

* Jens-Ivar Nergård: Cultural diversity and the conception of reality

Report from the 3rd conference om psychiatric Research in the North (p.79-86)



Associate professor Paul Opdal’s lectures:

Lecture 1, Friday Nov. 1, 1215: “Dialogue”
Reading: Selected chapters from

Plato: Gorgias isbn.0192636307
Oxford.u-press 1998 Oxford world classic 172 sider.

Lecture 2. Wednesday Nov. 6, 1415: “Children’s rights”
Reading: The child's convention. Main ideas.
Convention of the Rights of the child. U.N., N.Y. 1991.

* Text: http://www.unicef.org/crc/crc.htm