About this title: Nunavik is the first Inuit-controlled school district in Canada. This book offers a history of the development of self-government in education in Arctic Quebec, from the arrival of the first traders and missionaries in the mid-nineteenth century up to the creation of the Kativik School Board and its evaluation in the 1990s. It brings together Native and non-Native perspectives on education in northern Quebec and takes a detailed look at the debate about the purposes, achievements, and failures of public schools in Native communities in the North. Sources include interviews with Inuit elders ...
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: MICHIGAN STATE UNIV PR
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781552380567ISBN:1552380564
Description: New. As a history of the development of self-government in education, Nunavik provides Native perspectives on formal education in Nunavik while offering readers a unique view into contemporary Inuit society. This book documents the development of educatio... read more
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