Northern teachers in northern schools: the Greenland experience
It often appears as if circumpolar school administrators believe that the quality of education varies with the number of photocopiers purchased, the variety of textbooks available or the shape and novelty of their school buildings. The idea that a teacher might be the single most important factor in...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0032247400018234 2024-03-03T08:45:00+00:00 Northern teachers in northern schools: the Greenland experience Cram, Jack 1978 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400018234 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400018234 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Polar Record volume 19, issue 120, page 209-216 ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057 General Earth and Planetary Sciences Ecology Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 1978 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400018234 2024-02-08T08:49:44Z It often appears as if circumpolar school administrators believe that the quality of education varies with the number of photocopiers purchased, the variety of textbooks available or the shape and novelty of their school buildings. The idea that a teacher might be the single most important factor in a child's education often escapes mention. Yet the failure of schools in northern Canada and Alaska to produce enough graduates to meet even the limited local demand for workers can be traced, almost certainly, to the absence of trained native teachers and to the total lack of continuity provided by southern teachers, who stay for only two or three years in the north, keeping their locus of existence firmly rooted in the south. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Polar Record Alaska Cambridge University Press Canada Greenland Polar Record 19 120 209 216 |
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It often appears as if circumpolar school administrators believe that the quality of education varies with the number of photocopiers purchased, the variety of textbooks available or the shape and novelty of their school buildings. The idea that a teacher might be the single most important factor in a child's education often escapes mention. Yet the failure of schools in northern Canada and Alaska to produce enough graduates to meet even the limited local demand for workers can be traced, almost certainly, to the absence of trained native teachers and to the total lack of continuity provided by southern teachers, who stay for only two or three years in the north, keeping their locus of existence firmly rooted in the south. |
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