Bilingual education in Nunavut: Trojan horse or paper tiger?
On April 1 2009, Nunavut celebrated its tenth anniversary as Canada’s newest territory. Now halfway through the timeline set to fulfill its original goals, Nunavut is beginning to implement its new Education Act. This paper analyses education policy in the territory by specifically examining Berger’...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:oai:doaj.org/article:8e0ae9bcc35e4c40ac8130d3bea43506 2023-05-15T16:55:05+02:00 Bilingual education in Nunavut: Trojan horse or paper tiger? Andrew Peter Hodgkins 2010-06-01 https://doaj.org/article/8e0ae9bcc35e4c40ac8130d3bea43506 en fr eng fre Canadian Society for Studies in Education 1916-9221 https://doaj.org/article/8e0ae9bcc35e4c40ac8130d3bea43506 undefined Canadian Journal for New Scholars in Education, Vol 3, Iss 1 (2010) Nunavut Educaion Act Aboriginal Peoples Land Claims edu socio Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2010 fttriple 2023-01-22T19:31:59Z On April 1 2009, Nunavut celebrated its tenth anniversary as Canada’s newest territory. Now halfway through the timeline set to fulfill its original goals, Nunavut is beginning to implement its new Education Act. This paper analyses education policy in the territory by specifically examining Berger’s (2006) influential report, The Nunavut Project, which forms a basis for the new Education Act. Berger promoted the idea that achieving bilingual education in the K-12 system is required in order to improve graduation rates and increase Inuit participation in the wage economy. The paper provides both critical insights into Nunavut’s struggles for self-determination, and a case study for other regions currently engaged in the arduous path towards decolonisation. Article in Journal/Newspaper inuit Nunavut Unknown Nunavut |
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On April 1 2009, Nunavut celebrated its tenth anniversary as Canada’s newest territory. Now halfway through the timeline set to fulfill its original goals, Nunavut is beginning to implement its new Education Act. This paper analyses education policy in the territory by specifically examining Berger’s (2006) influential report, The Nunavut Project, which forms a basis for the new Education Act. Berger promoted the idea that achieving bilingual education in the K-12 system is required in order to improve graduation rates and increase Inuit participation in the wage economy. The paper provides both critical insights into Nunavut’s struggles for self-determination, and a case study for other regions currently engaged in the arduous path towards decolonisation. |
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Bilingual education in Nunavut: Trojan horse or paper tiger? |
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