414 Dossier(s) trouvé(s) à l’emplacement "Région désignée des Gwich'in" (les projets pluriannuels sont regroupés):
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Cultural and Environmental History of Northern Food Hazards
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Année(s) de permis: 2016 2015
Résumé: This research seeks to understand whether concerns about environmental contamination or potentially hazardous food products (included imported foods) influenced women’s decisions about how to feed newborn infants after 1970. More broadly, the research team seek to understand what factors (social, cultural, economic, environmental) influenced choices about feeding infants in the Mackenzie Delta reg...


Traditional Knowledge for Northern Community Well-being: examining collaborative approaches
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Année(s) de permis: 2016
Résumé: The objectives are to record insights and evaluations of approaches to culturally based wellness promotion and collaborative approaches to holistic healing from Northern perspectives. The research team will review literature on other efforts, and record responses to the teams own Wisdom Engaged activities from a range of northern participants, especially knowledgeable Elders, language and culture ...


The Sounds of Tukudh
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Année(s) de permis: 2016
Résumé: The immediate aims of The Sounds of Tukudh Project are: 1) to protect the existing recordings of the Tukudh Bible; 2) to place on record recording(s) of the Tukudh Syllabarium; and, 3) to begin the process of making a bibliography of existing recordings of Gwich’in. The first goal will be met through the technical means of re-recording the existing tapes of the Tukudh Bible in digital form. T...


Teachers' Stories: Culturally Responsive Teaching of Indigenous Students in the Northwest Territories
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Année(s) de permis: 2016
Résumé: The objective of this research project is to explore the lived experiences of teachers as they aim at attaining the educational outcomes through culturally responsive teaching. Interviews of six teachers will be done who will answer open-ended questions. A 5-member focus group shall be used to confirm or disconfirm the data from the interviewees. There shall be two sessions of interviews, which...


F.O.X.Y. Participatory Action Research Project
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Année(s) de permis: 2016 2015 2014 2013
Résumé: The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the F.O.X.Y. (Fostering Open eXpression among Youth) participatory action research project for empowering young NWT women and facilitating dialogue about sexual health issues in the North. The F.O.X.Y. participatory action research (PAR) project is a territorial-wide project that uses a grounded theory method and participatory actio...


Sustainability and Indigenous Knowledge in Aboriginal Post-Secondary Education Places of Learning
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Année(s) de permis: 2016
Résumé: Interview and collect survey data from educators at select Aboriginal post-secondary places of learning about their sustainability practices and policies, links to community-based conservation practices, and involvement with national and international decision-making processes on environmental issues. Three publishable manuscripts will be produced based on research data including: 1) A manuscript...


Northern and Indigenous Peoples and The Prospects for Nuclear Energy
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Année(s) de permis: 2016
Résumé: The goal of this research project is to conduct an assessment of the current state of thinking in northern and Indigenous communities about the possible future use of small nuclear power to serve the needs of northern and remote people. The research team will conduct Semi-structured and confidential interviews with Indigenous and community leaders. The interview subjects will be identified in...


Exploring what success means from the perspectives of Aboriginal Elders, parents and educators in Aklavik, Northwest Territories
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Année(s) de permis: 2016
Résumé: The research question is: “How do Aboriginal Elders, parents and educators define ‘success’ for Aboriginal youth residing in Aklavik, Northwest Territories?” The Principal Investigator (PI) will consider how these visions of success align with (or depart from) the Inuit Holistic Lifelong Learning Model presented by the Canadian Council on Learning (2007). The research question will be answered by ...


A Path to Greater Cultural Safety in NWT Physician Practice: Improving Patient-Physician Interaction in the Northwest Territories
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Année(s) de permis: 2016
Résumé: The objectives of this research project are to: 1) identify components of existing frameworks that might be suitable for a NWT cultural competency framework; 2) to measure the impact of frameworks on physician perception of patients; and, 3) to provide a foundation from which to begin design of a cultural competency framework and training program for health and social service care providers. Th...


Understanding and addressing males' boating safety practices in the Northwest Territories
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Année(s) de permis: 2016 2015
Résumé: There are three objectives for this research project: I) Understand Northwest Territories (NWT) resident male boaters’ behaviours and attitudes towards water safety. Given that rates of drowning are higher in the NWT, it would be dangerous to assume that male NWT residents have the same attitudes and behaviours concerning boat safety as their female and non-NWT resident counterparts. In particula...


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