Ilinniusiorfik

Ilinniusiorfik is the schoolbook publishing house of the Government of Greenland (Naalakkersuisut). Its stated purpose is to publish teaching materials for the folkeskole — the Greenlandic primary and lower-secondary school system. It is a non-commercial operation: according to the Danish Wikipedia entry, all production costs are covered by a grant on the national budget (finanslovsbevilling), so the publisher does not function as a profit-seeking commercial press. The publisher's roots lie in the period before Greenlandic Home Rule (Hjemmestyre) was introduced in 1979. Until then, the production of teaching materials for the Greenlandic school system was handled by the Danish Ministry for Greenland (Ministeriet for Grønland). Up to 1990, the production of teaching materials was a function of the Landscentralen for Undervisningsmidler (National Centre for Teaching Materials), which carried the Greenlandic name Pilersuiffik. From 1990 to 2002, Ilinniusiorfik was lent to the publishing house Atuakkiorfik A/S under the name Atuakkiorfik Ilinniusiorfik. During that period, Atuakkiorfik A/S formally acted as the publisher of Greenlandic schoolbooks under an agreement with Inerisaavik/Pilersuiffik. After the arrangement ended, the imprint continued as the self-government's own schoolbook publisher under the name Ilinniusiorfik. Today Ilinniusiorfik operates as a public, state-owned publisher serving Greenland's schools, with its website at ilinniusiorfik.gl. Its catalogue consists of educational titles — textbooks, workbooks and related teaching resources — rather than trade or consumer books. Because it is funded through public appropriations, its output is oriented toward curriculum needs and Greenlandic-language education rather than commercial sales.

Ilinniusiorfik is the schoolbook publisher of the Government of Greenland (Grønlands Selvstyre), whose purpose is to publish teaching materials for the folkeskole in Greenland. Its history is closely tied to the development of Greenlandic self-government and to the language and curriculum needs of Greenlandic schools. Before the introduction of Home Rule (Hjemmestyre) in 1979, the production of teaching materials for the Greenlandic school system was handled by the Danish Ministry for Greenland (Ministeriet for Grønland). In other words, responsibility for Greenlandic schoolbooks lay in Copenhagen during the colonial and early post-colonial period. Until 1990, the production of teaching materials was a function of the Landscentralen for Undervisningsmidler (National Centre for Teaching Materials), which carried the Greenlandic name Pilersuiffik. This body was the institutional home of schoolbook production in Greenland in the years after Home Rule. From 1990 to 2002, Ilinniusiorfik was lent to the publishing house Atuakkiorfik A/S under the name Atuakkiorfik Ilinniusiorfik. During that period, Atuakkiorfik A/S formally stood as the publisher of Greenlandic schoolbooks under an agreement with Inerisaavik/Pilersuiffik. This arrangement placed the schoolbook imprint within a commercial publishing house for roughly a decade, while the underlying public funding and curriculum responsibility remained with the Greenlandic authorities. All production costs are covered by a grant on the national budget (finanslovsbevilling), so the publisher is a non-commercial enterprise. After the Atuakkiorfik period, the imprint continued as the self-government's own schoolbook publisher under the name Ilinniusiorfik, with its own website at ilinniusiorfik.gl. The publisher's catalogue consists of educational titles for Greenlandic schools, and its operations are oriented toward public education rather than commercial book sales.

• 2002

  The Atuakkiorfik Ilinniusiorfik arrangement ends; the imprint continues as the self-government's schoolbook publisher under the name Ilinniusiorfik.

• 1990

  Ilinniusiorfik is lent to the publishing house Atuakkiorfik A/S under the name Atuakkiorfik Ilinniusiorfik.

• 1979

  Home Rule (Hjemmestyre) introduced in Greenland; responsibility for school teaching materials shifts from the Danish Ministry for Greenland to Greenlandic institutions.

Non-commercial, state-funded publisher of teaching materials for Greenland's primary and lower-secondary schools.

• School textbooks for the Greenlandic folkeskole

• Teaching materials and educational resources

1. 1Ilinniusiorfik – Wikipedia (Danish)da.wikipedia.org
2. 2Ilinniusiorfik – Wikidatawikidata.org
3. 3Ilinniusiorfik official websiteilinniusiorfik.gl