142 record(s) found with the tag "education" (multi-year projects are grouped):
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Distance Education in the Gwich'in Settlement Area: Its Current Status and Potential Role
Principal Investigator: Cayen, Liz
Licensed Year(s): 1997
Summary: The purpose of the study is to determine the current status of distance education in the Gwich'in Settlement Area, to analyse the existing education/training needs and to make recommendations about the use of distance education methods and strategies to meet those needs. This will involve surveying people who are presently or have recently pursued education through this delivery method. Data coll...


Distance Education Strategy - Aurora College 1997-2000
Principal Investigator: Wade, Bill
Licensed Year(s): 1997
Summary: The research involves collecting baseline data from previous and current distance education initiatives that the College has been engaged in and examining strategies employed by other educational organizations. In addition an needs assessment will be conducted in order to identify opportunities for program delivery via distance education technology....


(Home schooling in the Northwest Territories) Parent Choices in Education: Opting out of the Northwest Territories Education System.
Principal Investigator: Crowell, James W.
Licensed Year(s): 1997 1996
Summary: Study continued from 1996. School Principals will be contacted during the 1996/97 school year to collect data on the number of students involved in home schooling in each community. In the towns of Fort Smith, Hay River, and Yellowknife, parents of home schooling children will be contacted through principals to participate in tape recorded interviews. Data collection will be limited to mail, ph...


The Internet as a Research and Communications Tool: the Promise and Reality
Principal Investigator: Hogan, Bernard
Licensed Year(s): 1997
Summary: This study will involve using survey questionnaires to gather data on student usage of the Internet at Aurora College (Ft. Smith, Inuvik, and Yellowknife campuses). Approximately 150 students will be surveyed in Fort Smith, 70 students in Inuvik, and 150 students in Yellowknife. This data will be evaluated to determine the usefulness of the Internet for communications and research purposes....


An Analysis of the Roles, Responsibilities and Management practices in the Nortwest Territories Education System
Principal Investigator: Richardson, Denrick
Licensed Year(s): 1996
Summary: The study will follow an ethnographic or qualitative approach. An attempt will be made to interview a total of 100 people representing influential people in the communities....


The Changing Roles of Principals in the Northwest Territories
Principal Investigator: Cameron, Anne-Mieke
Licensed Year(s): 1996
Summary: The research strategy for this project will be one that facilitates open and naturalistic inquiry. As a qualitative research study, it will draw on emerging themes as they are gained through individual interviews with principals in the N.W.T. This naturalistic study will include thick description of contextual data gathered through interviews and analysis of documents. A limited pilot project s...


The NWT School Relationship Survey, 1995
Principal Investigator: Wall, Denis
Licensed Year(s): 1995
Summary: The survey will collect data from students, administrators, teachers, Board members, and other school-based staff. Pilot surveys will be undertaken to test the surveys and to identify necessary changes. A randomly selected group of 30 principals will be asked to collect data on incidents of interpersonal conflict in which they have to intervene. No names will be attached to surveys or descripti...


Factors That Motivate Inuit Tradesmen To Complete Trade Apprenticeships.
Principal Investigator: McCann, Doris
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: Four Inuit journeymen will participate in this research. An in depth interview will be conducted with each participant. It will be taped and transcribed. Thematic analysis of transcripts will follow. Supplementary interviews will be held to discuss specific details of the first interview. The final result of this research will be a descriptive profile of the factors that motivate Inuit tradesm...


Preliminary Planning for Arctic Field Course
Principal Investigator: Jackson, Mame
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: We plan to speak with hamlet leaders and others about the possibility of working together to organize a university-level course for about 20 students on Inuit culture and art which might be held in Igloolik at a mutually-agreeable time in the next year or two. The course would be jointly sponsored by Carleton University and DePaul University....


Shaping the institution of formal schooling to the needs of an Inuit community: a case study of Arctic Bay
Principal Investigator: Douglas, Anne
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993 1992
Summary: The researcher will revisit Arviat to continue her study that was initiated in 1991. She will examine how the people of the community interact with the formal school system in order to assess different approaches to schooling and different interpretations of concepts basic to schooling. Interviews will be conducted with the Community Education Council and members of the community....


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