Arrested in Teaching 1 Running head: ARRESTED IN TEACHING Arrested in Teaching: A Narrative Inquiry Using Stories of Non-Inuit

• Main Author: Anie Desautels
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Canada; Greenland; Nunavik; inuit; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.465.8967; http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/thesescanada/vol1/QMM/TC-QMM-32286.pdf

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. Sommaire