Pedagogy of the Front Float: Dialogue and Aquatics Programming in Taloyoak, Nunavut

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Baker, Ava C., Giles, Audrey R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2009
• Subjects: Nunavut; Northwest Territories aquatics program; drowning; Inuit; health; physical activity; programmes aquatiques dans les Territoires du Nord-Ouest; noyade; santé; activité physique; Northwest Territories; Taloyoak; Arctic; inuit; Territoires du Nord-Ouest
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63091

We examine the first author’s experiences with aquatics programming in Nunavut through a Freirian lens, arguing that one can use Paulo Freire’s ideals of dialogue and collaboration to recognize recreation as a mode of social oppression and to offer ways to disrupt this oppression. Though Freire’s wo...