Nagurnaja, S. V. REVIVAL OF THE NATIONAL SCHOOL IN KARELIA: THE EXPERIENCE OF THE FIRST DECADES. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2025;47(8):107–114. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2025.1256


Ethnology, anthropology and ethnography

REVIVAL OF THE NATIONAL SCHOOL IN KARELIA: THE EXPERIENCE OF THE FIRST DECADES

Nagurnaja
S. V. 		Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Keywords:
Karelian
Veps
educational system
ethnic minority school
legislative framework		 Summary: In Karelia, the educational system has for over 35 years been contributing to the preservation and development of the republic’s Baltic-Finnic languages – Karelian, Veps, and Finnish. The article reviews the initial period of the revival of ethnic minority schooling in Karelia (1980s – early 2000s). This period was a time of innovative solutions, dynamic communication between language activists and government officials, and concerted efforts of citizens and scientists to incorporate the Karelian and Veps languages in school-level education. Motions towards ethnic revival occurred alongside important social processes that had implications for the development of the language and educational policy. In the first decades of the ethnic school revival, the foundations of the legal framework regulating the use of minority languages in the educational system were laid. One of the cornerstones was the “Program for the Renewal and Development of Ethnic Schooling in the Karelian ASSR in 1991–1995”. The context for the revival of the ethnic school was a relaxed level of control by the federal center, permitting for greater independency in the ethnic policy. The period under review proved to be very fruitful in terms of expanding the regulatory framework, toolkit, and range of activities in the field of ethnic education.



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