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Record #192356:

Eurocentric roadblocks to school change in Nunavut / Paul Berger.

Title: Eurocentric roadblocks to school change in Nunavut / Paul Berger.
Author(s): Berger, Paul.
Date: 2009.
In: Études Inuit = Inuit Studies. (2009.), Vol. 33(1-2) (2009)
Abstract: Discusses prevalence of Euro-Canadian values in schooling in Canadian eastern Arctic, and extent to which English prevails over Inuit languages. Notes that many studies have linked this model of schooling to poor academic achievement and assault on Inuit culture. Argues that Eurocentrism continues to affect pace of educational change in Nunavut, despite supportive proclamations and good intentions of White teachers and bureaucrats.
Notes:

Études Inuit = Inuit Studies. Vol. 33(1-2) :55-76 (2009).

In special issue Education and transmission of Inuit knowledge in Canada.

Keywords: 323 -- Politics, internal.
325.3 -- Native policy.
364.122/.124 -- Social change and associated problems.
37 -- Education.
376.74 -- Education, native peoples.
80 -- General questions of linguistics and literature. Philology.
316 -- Sociology.
809.475 -- Eskimo-Aleut languages.
J -- Social sciences.
(*3) -- Arctic regions.
(*41) -- Canada.
(*410) -- Canadian Eastern Arctic.
(*440.2) -- Nunavut.
SPRI record no.: 192356

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