Perspectives on skills: an anthology on informally acquired skills in Greenland

The aim of this anthology is to shed light on the phenomenon of informally acquired skills, on ways to document and map these skills within the Greenlandic society, and find means to release this vast potential for the benefit of both the persons involved and the society in general. The report contains the following papers: Informally acquired skills: what and why / Rebekka Knudsen; Concepts, definitions, challenges / Patrick Werquin; The power of knowledge in the modernisation of Greenland / Brigitte Hoffmann and Ulrik Jorgensen; The education sector in Greenland: a quest for respectful rebellion / Merete Watt Boolsen; The Nuiki project: educational improvements in Greenlandic villages / Jimmy Hymoller and Palle Lennert; Educational possibilities in digital communication and infrastructure / Anders Ogaard; The economic perspective of getting everybody on board / Torben M. Andersen; Private sector responses and cases / Anne Christiansen; Mineral resources / Kuupik Vandersee Kleist; Aspects of tourism / Ilja Leo Lang; Fisheries / Nikoline Ziemer; Traditional knowledge and industrial development: in the potential use of indigenous and local knowledge as a resource to assess competencies in Greenland / Anne Merrild Hansen, Pelle Tejsner and Parnuna Egede; Large scale mining and social innovation: possible future avenues for enskilment / Fran Sejersen; Settlement patterns / Kare Hendriksen and Brigitte Hoffmann; Situated capacities: exploring Artic Winter Games 2016 upskilling initiatives / Carina Ren and Lill Rasad Bjorst; Building international economies / Rasmus Gjedsso Bertselsen, Jens Christian Svabo Justinussen and Coco Smits.

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