Regions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region
Tags: social sciences, traditional knowledge, education, socio-cultural, Inuit
Principal Investigator: | Pearce, Tristan D (27) |
Licence Number: | 16514 |
Organization: | University of Guelph, Department of Geography |
Licensed Year(s): |
2019
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Issued: | Mar 20, 2019 |
Project Team: | Richard McKinnon, Terry Ramirez, Miguel van der Velden |
Objective(s): To identify cultural programming at Helen Kalvak School; to document the meaning of cultural education for Inuit students; and to describe how cultural education helps to transmit traditional knowledge such as hunting and sewing as well as other cultural skills, knowledge and values.
Project Description: The goal is to examine cultural education at Helen Kalvak School and its role in the transmission of traditional knowledge. Specific objectives are to: 1) identify cultural programming at Helen Kalvak School; 2) document the meaning of cultural education for Inuit students; and to 3) describe how cultural education helps to transmit traditional knowledge such as hunting and sewing as well as other cultural skills, knowledge and values. Semi-structured interviews will be conducted with Inuit students and other community members in Ulukhaktok to document and describe the importance of cultural education to them. Interviews will be conducted in English and/or Inuinnaqtun and will be audio recorded when consent is given to do so. Interviews that are not audio recorded will be documented with notes written during and immediately after the interview. Interviews conducted in Inuinnaqtun will be translated into English in r... Show more