Childhood and education in the North: The problem of psychosocial well-being: The case of the international project «Children of the Arctic»

Abstract

Problems of childhood and education in the North are considered in the framework of the methodology of the international project ‘Children of the Arctic’ run by four countries: Finland, Norway, Russia, and Sweden. The central category of the project, the one that unifies the scientific interests of the partner countries if the psychosocial well-being with its similarities and differences across these countries. Presented is a philosophic and socio-pedagogic analysis of a child’s inner world. The authors draw the data from a survey of psychosocial well-being of the population of Murmansk region.