Extracting northern knowledge: Tracing the history of post-secondary education in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut

• Main Author: Black, Kelly
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Yukon College 2015
• Subjects: Canada; Northern; Universities and colleges > Canada; Northern > History; Education; Higher > Canada; Indigenous peoples > Canada; Indigenous peoples > Education (Higher) > Canada; Arctic regions > Research > Canada; Arctic; Nunavut; Northwest Territories; Inuvik; ArcticNet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10613/4877

This article traces the historical development of post-secondary education in the Western and Eastern Arctic from the end of the Second World War to the late 1980s and explores the role that southern Canadian universities have played in carrying out the socio-economic goals of nation building in the...