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Elisabeth Erke (born 8 September 1962) is a Norwegian
Elisabeth Erke
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Elisabeth Erke (born 8 September 1962) is a Norwegian Sami
Acronyms
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educator and politician.
Biography
Erke was educated as a teacher at Alta Teacher's College in the 1980s, before continuing her education in special education, mentoring, and coaching. Her master's inpedagogy
Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken ...
(on politics and feminism) was at the University of Oslo
The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...
. She began her political activity when, as a teacher student in Alta, she sat on the national board for Norwegian Teacher Students. From 1997 to 2001, she was a deputy representative at the Sami Parliament, at that time, for the Center Party. She transitioned to the AP in 2003. Afterwards, she was elected to the municipal council in Tana, where, from 2017, she is deputy mayor. From 1998 to 2012 she lived part of her time in Switzerland. She worked in elementary school in Akershus, Oslo
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population ...
, and Tana Tana may refer to:
Places
Africa
* Lake Tana, a lake in Ethiopia (and a source of the Nile River)
* Tana Qirqos, an island in the eastern part of Lake Tana in Ethiopia, near the mouth of the Gumara River
* Tana River County, a county of Coast P ...
. She also served as principal at the private New School in Oslo. From 2013, she has worked as museum director in the Tana Museum. From 2017, Erke has been a member of the Sámi Parliament of Norway
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. She was elected from the Eastern constituency, where she was at the head of the Labour Party (AP). In May 2018, she resigned from the AP and resigned as plenary leader at the Sami Parliament. Later that same year, she joined the Center Party.
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Elisabeth Erke
at Sametinget {{DEFAULTSORT:Erke, Elisabeth 1962 births Living people Members of the Sámi Parliament of Norway Norwegian Sámi politicians 21st-century Norwegian women politicians 21st-century Norwegian politicians 20th-century Norwegian educators 21st-century Norwegian educators 20th-century Norwegian women politicians 20th-century Norwegian politicians Labour Party (Norway) politicians Centre Party (Norway) politicians Directors of museums in Norway University of Oslo alumni