Per Fokstad
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Per Fokstad (3 September 1890 – 10 December 1973) was a teacher, politician, and intellectual of
Sami languages
in Norwegian schools.
Fokstad was born in
Tana
. In the following ten years, he would take a leave of absence for further studies, three of the times in countries other than Norway.
For the 1915-1916 school year, he studied at
Woodbrooke College in Birmingham, England. The year after, he was at the Institut du pantheon de France in Paris, where he first discovered Henri Bergsons
philosophy.
Even in his first published article in 1917, he was fighting for
Sami language
training in schools. At a conference in 1919 he was the architect behind a resolution that required:
- That the Sami languageshould be studied for the first three school years.
- That all teaching about Sami language.
- Introducing Norwegian as a foreign language.
He followed up the idea with an article in 1923, and with a detailed report on The parliamentarian school commission (1923–1926). In 1937, together with headmaster M. Bremer, a «cultural institute for the
Sami
».
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