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}{% \vskip8pt \textcolor{GJMediumGrey}{\rule{\textwidth}{2pt}} \vskip16pt } \usepackage[absolute,overlay]{textpos} \makeatother \usepackage{lineno} \linenumbers \begin{document} \author[1]{Satu Uusiautti} \author[2]{Kaarina Maatta} \affil[1]{ University of Lapland} \renewcommand\Authands{ and } \date{\small \em Received: 10 June 2015 Accepted: 5 July 2015 Published: 15 July 2015} \maketitle \begin{abstract} The purpose of this article is to describe and define the special features of teaching and learning in the northern areas of Finland, especially in Arctic contexts. The article introduces the essence of Arctic pedagogy by introducing its challenges and goals, possibilities and significance. A model of Arctic pedagogy to be applied in northern education is outlined as a five-level action and teaching tool, which is manifested in learning processes, learning environments, teacherhood, educational leadership, and multi-professionalism. The cornerstones of Arctic pedagogy are adapting, understanding, and analyzing Arctic information in learning processes, student-centered caring teacherhood, wide-ranging networking to support learning, and communalism. The relationship between Arctic information, its implementation through Arctic pedagogy, and the goals of Arctic future skills are discussed. \end{abstract} \keywords{learning, teaching, pedagogy, arctic.} \begin{textblock*}{18cm}(1cm,1cm) % {block width} (coords) \textcolor{GJBlue}{\LARGE Global Journals \LaTeX\ JournalKaleidoscope\texttrademark} \end{textblock*} \begin{textblock*}{18cm}(1.4cm,1.5cm) % {block width} (coords) \textcolor{GJBlue}{\footnotesize \\ Artificial Intelligence formulated this projection for compatibility purposes from the original article published at Global Journals. However, this technology is currently in beta. \emph{Therefore, kindly ignore odd layouts, missed formulae, text, tables, or figures.}} \end{textblock*} \let\tabcellsep& \section[{I. Introduction}]{I. Introduction}\par he purpose of this article is to describe and define the special features of teaching and learning in the northern areas of Finland, especially in Arctic contexts. The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of the Earth, consisting of the Arctic Ocean and parts of Alaska (United States), Canada, Finland, Greenland (Denmark), Iceland, Norway, Russia, and Sweden. The viewpoint of this article is based in Finland, a small country located in the North Europe. The area of Finland that is located in the Arctic is called Lapland. The population of Lapland consists of mainstreaming Finnish people but of the indigenous people of Sámi as well. This is a very typical situation in countries located in the Arctic (see e.g., \hyperref[b2]{Brody, 1987;}\hyperref[b33]{Slezkine, 1994)}.\par Finland has internationally highly appreciated and recognized education system (see e.g., \hyperref[b32]{Simola, 2005;}\hyperref[b42]{Välijärvi, 2014)}, and teacher education has been considered one of its main pillars (Uusiautti \& Määttä 2013a; \hyperref[b43]{Välijärvi et al., 2007)}. However, the realization of education is a topical concern in Finland because of our long distances and scarce population; and these features are especially pronounced in northern parts of Finland, above the Arctic Circle, in the area called Lapland.\par In this article, the aim is to analyze how to organize teaching and learning so that education can best support the well-being of people living in the Arctic and thus also contribute to the vitality of Arctic regions.\par Teaching in the Arctic is defined here as "Arctic pedagogy" and our purpose is to analyze what Arctic pedagogy is, how to implement it, and why it is important.\par We work at the department of education at the University of Lapland, which is the northernmost university in European Union. The purpose of this article is to produce a model of Arctic pedagogy to strengthen education in schools in Lapland and to further teacher education and its special features in the northern area. The article is based on our long-term experience of the area; we have lived and worked for decades in research and education tasks in Lapland. Simultaneously, we have witnessed the changes in teaching, students, and learning in Lapland.\par Our research has focused widely on the educational special features of Lapland and the special circumstances of education and teaching in the area (see e.g., {\ref Kilpimaa} \hyperref[b36]{\& Määttä, 2013b}\hyperref[b37]{\& Määttä, , 2013c))}. In addition, we have studied educational leadership \hyperref[b38]{(Uusiautti \& Määttä, 2014a;}\hyperref[b40]{2015)}. The findings of these studies from the basis of Arctic pedagogy.\par Education is always context-bound. Therefore, research and research-based education at the University of Lapland are focused on the northern societies, environment, people, and their interaction. The mission of the University of Lapland is captured in its watchword "For the North, for the world", and research on change in the Arctic and the North. According to the strategic profile of the University of Lapland, the impacts of global economic and political changes are felt more keenly in the Arctic than elsewhere (see also http:// www.ulapland.fi/InEnglish/About-us/Strategy-2025). The purpose is to contribute to these aims of education and to the needs of the northern region from an educational perspective.\par This article introduces the essence of Arctic pedagogy by introducing its challenges and goals, possibilities and significance. A model of Arctic pedagogy to be applied in northern education will be outlined as the conclusion. \section[{II. The Challenging Target Area of Arctic Pedagogy}]{II. The Challenging Target Area of Arctic Pedagogy}\par The Arctic is a special area because of its history and conditions, which also influence educational solutions of the area \hyperref[b2]{(Brody, 1987;}\hyperref[b3]{Byers, 2009;}\hyperref[b21]{Kruse et al., 2009)}. The population of the Arctic increased rapidly as the health care improved and natural resources of the North were utilized systematically during the 1950s and 1960s. However, during the past few decades, the population growth has slowed down. In the current situation, many phenomena related to the demography (such as scarce population, means of communication, small student groups, and lack of available teachers) challenge education.\par Likewise, the Arctic nature influence people's action in its own way {\ref (Ims et} Arctic pedagogy means a new kind of realization of learning and teaching, surpassing the aforementioned boundaries and employing the opportunities offered by the social media and new technologies (see also e.g., \hyperref[b39]{Uusiautti \& Määttä, 2014b)}. It aims at engaging learners of different ages in the local, regional, and global co-operation and life-long, life-wide learning regardless of whether it happened at school or work, or in the third age.\par The level of Arctic information and knowledge is expanding, and, therefore, Arctic education should pay attention to how to enhance information seeking skills and understanding of how information is constructed and produced, how to evaluate reliability of the information, and how to master and analyze information entities \hyperref[b26]{(Nonaka \& Konno, 1998)}. Teachers who work in the Arctic area must not just be considered distributors of information but guides and motivators who support students' positive development and identification with the Arctic area. \section[{III. The Objectives of Arctic Pedagogy}]{III. The Objectives of Arctic Pedagogy}\par The objective of Arctic pedagogy is to strengthen the future skills of people and workplaces in the Arctic area by enhancing their communalism, collaboration, problem-solving skills, and opportunities to active learning that is based on their own premises and culture. Technology skills contributes to various skills but, in addition, it supports influencing opportunities and realization of equality and produces participation. It also creates a learning environment that promotes formal and informal learning by combining generations and their cultural legacies. Learning draws from various teaching and learning methods, such as peer learning and physical and virtual learning spaces.\par Arctic pedagogy is based on the idea that information seeking skills, ability to evaluate the correctness of information and to analyze entities are crucial in learning. Arctic pedagogy is, therefore, not just about information distribution. Our society necessitates new kind of expertise and knowhow. From the point of view of Arctic pedagogy, it is necessary to pay attention to such basic skills and attitudes that promotes learners' entrenchment to and positive development in Lapland. Arctic information should be applied widely to provide students with favorable premises to adopt the core information that also makes it possible to renew, change, and deepen knowledge and learning.\par The purpose of Arctic pedagogy is to tie Arctic information with teaching in various subjects and at the different levels of curricula. When designing learning entities, the Arctic special features could be noticed as teaching contents and supporting themes. Arctic information can be analyzed and applied in various cross-curricular learning projects. This is how the basis of Arctic pedagogy is created by drawing from the regional special circumstances to providing students with means to perceive the possibilities of the North as well as their own strengths as factors of learning and future success. \section[{IV. The Implementation and Elements of Arctic pedagogy}]{IV. The Implementation and Elements of Arctic pedagogy}\par Arctic pedagogy appears as a five-level action and teaching tool. It is manifested as follows:\par 1) Arctic pedagogy appears in learning processes.\par (a) as goals: Arctic pedagogy aims at promoting learning and creating such learning conditions that learning becomes possible to everyone as life-long and life-wide in the Arctic circumstances realizing and recognizing, appreciating and renewing their special features. The key terms of Arctic pedagogy are inclusion, innovation, and spatiality (physical and virtual spaces). Learning environments are perceived more widely than just classroom-based spaces. \section[{Global Journal of Human}]{Global Journal of Human}\par Especially, Arctic information is employed in learning environment, for example by visiting local nature, culture, and industry and commerce, and as related learning projects. Learning environments are designed so that they support students' positive development physically, socially, emotionally, and cognitively. 3) Arctic pedagogy appears in teacherhood. Arctic pedagogy reflects on teacherhood not only as subject-specific discussion over Arctic questions but also as pedagogical skills, interaction skills, and strength-recognition and supporting skills that form the core of caring teacherhood. Teachers also need technological and networking skills to create various learning environments. 4) Arctic pedagogy appears in educational leadership.\par Arctic pedagogy is also based on the idea of caring leadership that includes shared leadership, Arctic expertise as the strategic foundation of education, quality control, and teamwork. According to the caring leadership idea, teachers, educators, and education authorities can act as motivators, guides, and supporters of learners' learning, strengths and well-being, and positive development in general.\par Caring leadership in teaching is manifested as the teacher's interaction with students and other school personnel, students' parents and partners of the school. 5) Arctic pedagogy appears in multiprofessionalism.\par Arctic pedagogy is strongly local and aims at including and entrenching Arctic information in teaching. Therefore, local agents, partners, networks, homes, other schools, and education professionals, school health care nurses and psychologists, and counselors form an important multiprofessional network that help implementing Arctic pedagogy.\par The elements of Arctic pedagogy are illustrated in Figure \hyperref[fig_1]{1}. V. The Implementation and Elements of Arctic Pedagogy\par The essential learning target of Arctic pedagogy is Arctic future skills that aim at maintaining and promoting the livelihood and well-being of the area. The cornerstones of Arctic pedagogy are adapting, understanding, and analyzing Arctic information in learning processes, student-centered caring teacherhood, wide-ranging networking to support learning, and communalism. For example, the Arctic Centre produces Arctic information through its many research projects.\par The relationship between this foundation (Arctic information), implementation (Arctic pedagogy), and goals (Arctic future skills) is illustrated in Figure \hyperref[fig_2]{2}. \section[{VI. Conclusion}]{VI. Conclusion}\par The Arctic area is sparsely-populated and long distances determine the direction and arrangements of life and schooling. Schools are located in municipal centers even hundreds of kilometers from each other. In Lapland, school commutes are therefore long, including time to wait for the transportation (Koskela, Määttä, \& Uusiautti, 2013). Actually, it is not a very long time since there still were boarding schools (Kilpimaa, Määttä, \& Uusiautti, 2012; Lakkala, Määttä, \& Uusiautti, 2013). The extraordinary circumstances also make it difficult to arrange parents' conferences or meetings with multiprofessional teams. There is lack of student health care personnel and specialized professionals \hyperref[b20]{(Koskela, Määttä, \& Uusiautti, 2013)}.\par Still, the nature and culture of the Arctic area, natural livelihoods, tourism (e.g., \hyperref[b29]{Pretes, 1995)}, and for example, mining industry (see e.g., \hyperref[b34]{Suopajärvi, 2014)} provide special living and developmental opportunities (Larsen \& Fondall, 2014). Many of those born in Lapland want to do their life's work in their home region -but it necessitates suitable education and employment opportunities (see {\ref McLean, 1997;}\hyperref[b30]{Sarivaara, Uusiautti, \& Määttä, 2013)}. Therefore, Arctic future skills become invaluable.\par It is not easy to renew education, and the old learning and teaching methods tend to be adopted from generation to another. New approaches should be actively invented and tested, and a bold, open-minded attitude is needed (see also . Therefore, it is surprising how slowly the new technological opportunities are exploited in education {\ref (Blin \& Munro, 2008)}. Arctic pedagogy is a teaching method that leans on the northern special features, but simultaneously seizes the modern possibilities and attempts to adopt them in northern education. Its fundamental goal is to enhance knowledge and appreciation of the Arctic special features so that the vitality of the area is maintained and strengthened. The future of the Arctic areas depends on the versatile and wide-ranging education of its people-on their future skills. This vision means that Arctic pedagogy has a unique and irreplaceable significance.\par Arctic pedagogy should be developed through practical experiments and research for this is the only way to know which methods suit the area the best and support students' learning, entrenchment, and wellbeing. Consequently, the current research on Arctic pedagogy (see e.g., Keskitalo, Määttä, \& Uusiautti, 2013; Leskisenoja \& Uusiautti, 2015) is based on action research in which the new methods are implemented, evaluated, and renewed in the Arctic area in collaboration with teachers, students, and school authorities. When the elements of Arctic pedagogy are implicitly described at the practical level, their theoretical foundations can be deepened with interdisciplinary research. Research on the teaching experiences and practices provides new information to further refine practical applications.\par The research-based model of Arctic pedagogy can become an established part of teacher training at the University of Lapland, and its implementation can be evaluated in the elementary schools and teacher training schools in the Arctic area. The goal is to enhance teachers' awareness of how to include Arctic questions in teaching methodologically and as regards the content.\par Teacher training is an essential element to develop Arctic pedagogy. The Finnish research-based teacher training forms a suitable foundation to strengthen and further Arctic pedagogy (see \hyperref[b11]{Kansanen, 2006;}\hyperref[b36]{Uusiautti \& Määttä, 2013b)}. When teachers apply the pedagogy in practice and it is evaluated by research, the approach will be strengthened, refined, and molded according to the Arctic circumstances. Thus, Arctic pedagogy will be an important future-maker in the Arctic area. The Basics of Arctic Pedagogy 21. Lakkala, S., {\ref Uusiautti} \begin{figure}[htbp] \noindent\textbf{}\includegraphics[]{image-2.png} \caption{\label{fig_0}}\end{figure} \begin{figure}[htbp] \noindent\textbf{1}\includegraphics[]{image-3.png} \caption{\label{fig_1}Figure 1 :}\end{figure} \begin{figure}[htbp] \noindent\textbf{2}\includegraphics[]{image-4.png} \caption{\label{fig_2}Figure 2 :}\end{figure} \begin{figure}[htbp] \noindent\textbf{} \par \begin{longtable}{P{0.85\textwidth}} Heikkilä \& Määttä, 2012; Lakkala, Uusiautti, \& Määttä,\\ 2013; Koskela, Määttä, \& Uusiautti, 2013), early\\ childhood education and growth environment in Lapland\\ (e.g., Happo, Määttä, \& Uusiautti, 2012a; Määttä \&\\ Uusiautti, 2012a, 2012b; Uusiautti, Happo, \& Määttä,\\ 2014), Sámi education (e.g., Keskitalo \& Määttä, 2011;\\ Keskitalo, Uusiautti, Sarivaara, \& Määttä, 2014), and\\ teachers' expertise and teacher education in the\\ northern circumstances (Happo, Määttä, \& Uusiautti,\\ 2012b; Uusiautti\end{longtable} \par \caption{\label{tab_0}}\end{figure} \begin{figure}[htbp] \noindent\textbf{} \par \begin{longtable}{} \end{longtable} \par \caption{\label{tab_2}}\end{figure} \footnote{\& Children´s Literature, 8\hyperref[b0]{(1)}, 597-618.} \backmatter \begin{bibitemlist}{1} \bibitem[]{b1}\label{b1} \textit{}, \xref{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2007.09.017}{10.1016/j.compedu.2007.09.017}. p. . \bibitem[Rovaniemi]{b18}\label{b18} \textit{}, Rovaniemi . 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