Arrested in teaching: A narrative inquiry using stories of non-Inuit women living in the far North

Using a narrative inquiry approach, this thesis focuses on the teaching practice of a non-Inuit teacher working in a primary school of Nunavik (northern Québec). The author reviewed a narrative of her experience in a small Inuit community where she taught a multi-level group in French immersion. She...

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Main Author: Desautels, Anie
Other Authors: Mekhala Sarkar (Internal/Supervisor), Teresa Strong (Internal/Cosupervisor2)
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: McGill University 2009
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Online Access:http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=32286
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Summary:Using a narrative inquiry approach, this thesis focuses on the teaching practice of a non-Inuit teacher working in a primary school of Nunavik (northern Québec). The author reviewed a narrative of her experience in a small Inuit community where she taught a multi-level group in French immersion. She used the diary writing of other non-Indigenous women who also traveled in the Northern regions of Canada, Alaska and Greenland to understand recurrent behavior patterns that link her to these female adventurers. Poststructuralist and feminist, this very personal approach to hermeneutic research raises fundamental questions of modern colonialism and critical pedagogy and is based on a belief in curriculum theory and its critical view on the need for social justice. Utilisant l'étude de récits, cette thèse élabore sur les pratiques pédagogiques d'une enseignante non-inuit travaillant dans une école primaire du Nunavik au Québec. L'auteure étudie le récit de son expérience dans une petite communauté inuit où elle a enseigné à un groupe multi-niveaux de jeunes en immersion française. Elle utilise les écrits d'autres femmes non-autochtones qui ont aussi voyagé dans les régions arctiques du Canada, de l'Alaska et du Groenland pour comprendre son comportement et ce qui la lie à ces femmes. Poststructuraliste et féministe, cette approche très personnelle de la recherche herméneutique soulève d'importantes questions portant sur le colonialisme moderne ainsi que la pédagogie critique et se fonde sur la théorie du curriculum et ses opinions critiques exigeant la justice sociale.