Chemistry Outreach going north: Inuit Chemistry student coming south
Northern Canada is a different world. In this presentation, a chemistry instructor will first give the perspective of a “southerner” who experienced the eye-opening culture-change experience of taking Chemistry Outreach to Nunatsiavut (and to Nunavut). Then a young woman Inuk, who has lived the Inui...
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Scholarship@Western
2019
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| Online Access: | https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/wcse/WCSENineteen/Thursday/44 |
| Summary: | Northern Canada is a different world. In this presentation, a chemistry instructor will first give the perspective of a “southerner” who experienced the eye-opening culture-change experience of taking Chemistry Outreach to Nunatsiavut (and to Nunavut). Then a young woman Inuk, who has lived the Inuit life, will describe the challenges for her in travelling south to become a science student away from her culturally-rich society to a small, but very isolating, university environment. |
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