Teaching and learning resources for minority languages – JEMIE Special Issue 3/2025 in the spotlight
6th of October 2025
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Textbooks, open educational resources, and other learning materials are vital for small and minoritized languages. At the same time, their development and accessibility often face challenges such as limited funding, lack of qualified authors, and restricted distribution. In this webinar, which is part of the Online Talks series, we will take a closer look at the recent special issue "Teaching and Learning Resources for Linguistic Minorities", edited by Maarit Jaakkola and Boglárka Straszer and published in the Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (JEMIE). We will ask how the popular game space Minecraft can serve as a source for exploring sociolinguistic aspects of the Northern Sámi language, how teaching materials in and about the Tatar language, which are mostly in written and even printed form, can preserve cultural heritage and pass it on to new generations – and how such materials can be used, further developed and complemented.
Panel
Maarit Jaakkola is working as the co-director of Nordicom, a centre for Nordic media research at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Jaakkola is also an associate professor in journalism at the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication (JMG) at the University of Gothenburg, and an adjunct professor in journalism at the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences (ITC) at Tampere University. More information.
Line Reichelt Føreland is assistant professor at the Department of Nordic and Media Studies at the University of Agder in Norway. She is currently working on a PhD on game-based learning in Norwegian and Sámi schools. She holds a master's degree in Nordic language and literature, as well as a master's degree in Arabic. Additionally, she has studied Sámi culture and society, comics and graphic novels, children's and youth literature, school library knowledge, and film studies. More information.
Lemet Máhtte Eira Sara, student at Sámi University of Applied Sciences in Guovdageaidnu in Norway. More information.
Sabira Ståhlberg, independent researcher in multidisciplinary fields: Multilingualism & Multiculturalism, Asian Studies, Tatars, Balkans, Ethnobiology, History and more. More information.
Rauni Äärelä-Vihriälä is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Education at the University of Lapland in Finland. She works with the REBOUND project that is funded by the Strategic Research Council (SRC) established within the Research Council of Finland. The project concentrates on questions of intergenerational green transition. Rauni`s research fields are in Indigenous research, espacially Sámi education, especially digital learning, language immersion, language nest pedagogy and language revitalization. More information.
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