Inuit perceptions of learning and formal education in the Canadian Arctic
There is a longstanding desire among some Inuit and northern educators to better integrate Inuit culture and modes of learning in education. At present, efforts to include Inuit culture in education can be described as ad hoc or add-ons to a Euro-North American schooling system, which puts many Inui...
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ftunivguelph:oai:atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca:10214/10330 2024-06-23T07:50:16+00:00 Inuit perceptions of learning and formal education in the Canadian Arctic Lalonde, Geneviève Pearce, Tristan Bradshaw, Benjamin 2017-04-27 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10214/10330 en eng University of Guelph http://hdl.handle.net/10214/10330 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/ Indigenous Traditional Knowledge (TK) learning school culture-based curriculum Inuit Inuvialuit Thesis 2017 ftunivguelph 2024-06-04T23:59:50Z There is a longstanding desire among some Inuit and northern educators to better integrate Inuit culture and modes of learning in education. At present, efforts to include Inuit culture in education can be described as ad hoc or add-ons to a Euro-North American schooling system, which puts many Inuit in internal conflict trying to live according to two value systems that in some ways are contradictory. This thesis reports on research conducted with Inuit in the western Canadian Arctic to examine what aspects of culture and modes of learning Inuit desire to have included in education, beyond those identified a priori by non-Inuit educators. A conceptual framework for the cultural negotiation of Indigenous education is empirically applied in a case study of Ulukhaktok, NWT to identify what Inuit think Inuit youth should learn, how they should learn it, where they should learn it and from whom, and why it is important for them to learn it. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews (n=31), free-lists and participant observation. Findings show that Inuit desire to have native languages, subsistence knowledge, skills and values, and understanding of the local environment included in education, which not only builds competence in subsistence but also provides students with capacity to cope with challenges in the modern world. This involves on-the-land hands-on learning with a skilled person and practical everyday use of native languages in learning. Inuit perceive school as a place for “learning” and the research identifies opportunities to negotiate this space to better integrate Inuit culture and modes of learning. Northern Scientific Training Program Canadian Institutes of Health Research Thesis Arctic inuit Inuvialuit Ulukhaktok University of Guelph: DSpace digital archive Arctic Ulukhaktok ENVELOPE(-117.772,-117.772,70.736,70.736) |
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There is a longstanding desire among some Inuit and northern educators to better integrate Inuit culture and modes of learning in education. At present, efforts to include Inuit culture in education can be described as ad hoc or add-ons to a Euro-North American schooling system, which puts many Inuit in internal conflict trying to live according to two value systems that in some ways are contradictory. This thesis reports on research conducted with Inuit in the western Canadian Arctic to examine what aspects of culture and modes of learning Inuit desire to have included in education, beyond those identified a priori by non-Inuit educators. A conceptual framework for the cultural negotiation of Indigenous education is empirically applied in a case study of Ulukhaktok, NWT to identify what Inuit think Inuit youth should learn, how they should learn it, where they should learn it and from whom, and why it is important for them to learn it. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews (n=31), free-lists and participant observation. Findings show that Inuit desire to have native languages, subsistence knowledge, skills and values, and understanding of the local environment included in education, which not only builds competence in subsistence but also provides students with capacity to cope with challenges in the modern world. This involves on-the-land hands-on learning with a skilled person and practical everyday use of native languages in learning. Inuit perceive school as a place for “learning” and the research identifies opportunities to negotiate this space to better integrate Inuit culture and modes of learning. Northern Scientific Training Program Canadian Institutes of Health Research |
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Inuit perceptions of learning and formal education in the Canadian Arctic |
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Inuit perceptions of learning and formal education in the Canadian Arctic |
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Inuit perceptions of learning and formal education in the Canadian Arctic |
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Inuit perceptions of learning and formal education in the Canadian Arctic |
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Inuit perceptions of learning and formal education in the Canadian Arctic |
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inuit perceptions of learning and formal education in the canadian arctic |
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