Insight from Nunavut Educators Using Appreciative Inquiry ...
The purpose of this paper is to document some successful features of public schools within Nunavut, according to the personal experiences of a group of 14 principals, vice-principals, and teachers. At the start of this paper, I explained my research positionality, depicting my personal history and b...
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Alberta Journal of Educational Research
2017
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/ajer.v63i3.56156 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/ajer/article/view/56156 |
| Summary: | The purpose of this paper is to document some successful features of public schools within Nunavut, according to the personal experiences of a group of 14 principals, vice-principals, and teachers. At the start of this paper, I explained my research positionality, depicting my personal history and background related to this study. From a total of 24 individual interviews, three themes surfaced: culturally vibrant programs, the array of professional development offered to educators, and student self-pride and involvement in school activities. To conceptualize the findings, I applied the 4-D cycle of appreciative inquiry (i.e., Discovery, Dream, Design, and Destiny) and explained how effective change can emerge within a school system. Appreciative inquiry is a change process of identifying what is working well, deciphering why it is working well, and emulating more of those positive attributes. L’objectif de cet article est de documenter quelques-unes des caractéristiques des écoles publiques au Nunavut qui - ... : Alberta Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 63 No. 3 (2017): Fall 2017 ... |
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