17 record(s) found with the tag "northern perspective" (multi-year projects are grouped):
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The Role of the Adult Educator in a cross-cultural Context: Adult Education in the NWT Context: Aurora Campus, Inuvik, Adult Basic Education
Principal Investigator: Sharkey, Irene
Licensed Year(s): 1998
Summary: I will mainly reflect on any experiences and review secondary sources. I will collect data through an exploration of my own practice as an educator and through an investigation of significant themes previously identified in the literature studied in the area of cross-cultural and adult education. The following themes will be considered farther for their relevance in organizing the investigation: D...


Mythical/Material: The Pragmatic Artistry of Inuit Autobiography
Principal Investigator: Blake, Dale
Licensed Year(s): 1996
Summary: I would like to obtain information about the context from which Inuit autobiographers wrote. Therefore I wish to tape interviews with the relatives and acquaintances of French and Thrasher. I also wish to interview outsiders who have settled in the North, to provide me with more material to critique stereotypical views of the North and Inuit, a main thrust of my thesis....


Ideas of the Canadian North
Principal Investigator: Morrow, Jennifer
Licensed Year(s): 1995
Summary: Want to interview people to discuss their ideas of "North" and of the possibility and consequences of integrating indigenous and western knowledge systems. Also conducting some archival research in the Yellowknife library....


The News Void in the Northwest Territories and Its Cultural Implications
Principal Investigator: Schutta, Susan
Licensed Year(s): 1991 1990
Summary: The Project will involve interviews with southern trained news gatherers and disseminators as well as members of the native community. Interviews will focus on the options Northerners have to creating and disseminating news in the North....


Northern Issues - 91
Principal Investigator: Rouse, William
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher will conduct a survey of newspapers and journals within the N.W.T. to gain a broad understanding of the most "topical" issues affecting the N.W.T. in 1991. The study will focus on socio-political, environmental and legal areas. A database containing the organizations and institutions involved in these issues will be established....


Perspectives on Arctic Water: a photographic exhibit
Principal Investigator: Stirling, Ruth
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Ruth Stirling will be recording how water and ice are used by Inuit during a year. She will be interviewing people and taking photographs. From this, she will make a photographic exhibition that shows how differently Inuit feel about water and ice in comparison to people living in the south. This exhibition will be displayed in England. She also wants to teach photography and establish a commu...


Women in the North
Principal Investigator: Crnkovich, Mary
Licensed Year(s): 1988 1987
Summary: Mary Crnkovitch's assistant, Angela Bernal, is completing the interviews required to produce a book on issues facing northern women. The book will cover topics ranging from giving birth, to women in politics, to special social problems such as family violence. The book should be published in the fall by the Canadian Arctic Resources Committee (CARC) in Ottawa....


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