142 record(s) found with the tag "education" (multi-year projects are grouped):
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Identification of Content and Structure Requirements for a Nursing Diploma Program in the Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories.
Principal Investigator: McClelland, Patricia
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992
Summary: To plan for nursing education in the Yukon and Northwest Territories, it is important to know the knowledge and skills that nurses require in the north. This research has been designed to ask employers, nurses and community members to rate common curriculum items in a nursing program as to their importance, and to suggest items which they feel are important but which are excluded from most nursin...


A History of Adult Education in the Kitikmeot Region
Principal Investigator: McLean, Scott
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The researcher will use archival materials in Cambridge Bay, Yellowknife or Fort Smith in order to document the history of adult education in the Kitikmeot. As well, he will interview government employees involved with Arctic College and the Department of Education. He will analyse how the history of adult education activities are linked to processes of social change in the Kitikmeot....


A Grammar of West Greenlandic
Principal Investigator: Sadock, Jerrold M.
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The researcher has been working on a scientific grammar of the language of West Greenland, which is closely related to the Inuit dialects of the NWT, and in particular, those of Baffin Island. The aim of the the grammar is to avoid the bias of European languages and be truer to the form of this language itself. The researcher will discuss the grammar with educators and other specialists in Iqalu...


Western Arctic Women Artists
Principal Investigator: Delisi, Joanne C.
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993 1992
Summary: Ms. Delisi ill investigate the role of art in the lives of women in the Western Arctic, the effect of formal and traditional education in the early learning of women's art forms and how the role of women in the family and society has changed through art. Research will also be conducted to determine how increased pressure on women to support their families has changed the art forms and how the wome...


Syntactic Structures in Inuktitut
Principal Investigator: Nowak, Elke
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The Researcher will conduct purely grammatical research by gathering information on the social and political situation of Inuktitut: what changes and/or developments have taken place during the last four years? What is the situation in schools like, what kind of teaching material is available? What is the attitude of young people (under 30 years) toward the language?...


Identification and Sharing of Exemplary Programs and Processes in Circumpolar Education
Principal Investigator: Vick, Ann
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The researchers will identify and share exemplary programs and processes in circumpolar education. They will investigate the design and results of the research program established to assess the effectiveness of the Piniaqtavut program (developing instructional programs which use community knowledge). They will also explore how the Baffin Divisional Board may be able to utilize other circumpolar re...


Native Education As Cultural Brokerage: Learning In An Inuit Community
Principal Investigator: Stairs, Arlene
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991 1990 1988
Summary: The research will continue to study processes of learning in an Inuit community today. The focus is on various learning settings such as land, settlement and school, and groups of learners such as adults learning new skills and school students....


An Investigation Into The Effects Of Principal Succession In Schools In The N.W.T.
Principal Investigator: Gowans, Bill
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The Researcher will use a questionnaire to chart responses from all principals in the N.W.T as to their experiences in pre-arrival, arrival and succession....


An Evaluation of the Principals' Certification Course of the Northwest Territories
Principal Investigator: McGrath, George
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher will interview planners and developers of the Principal's Certification Course to determine the purpose of the course. A questionnaire will be sent to selected principles to determine the effect of the course. A small number of schools will be visited to confirm the effect, if any, on the organization and operation of these schools and if it can be traced to the participation of the...


A Study of the Effect of Education on the Inuit Family Within the Community of Hall Beach, N.W.T.
Principal Investigator: Hergovich, Eva
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher working with the classroom teacher will present two questionnaires to all Grade 7, 8 and 9 students at Atanaarjuat School. The questionnaires will investigate changes in family attitudes which might be attibutable to education and the television media. The first questionnaire will deal with family relationships and the classroom, the second with the influence of television on family...


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