Nunavik: Inuit-controlled Education in Arctic Quebec"In the pages of this book, you will read of the efforts of many to fearlessly audit the state of education in Nunavik. To diligently seek improvement of an already good system. To fix what is not necessarily broken so that those who come after us will have it even better than we did. The various tensions and differences of opinion are, to me, not contentious at all. The status quo, however good or excellent, is no place to stay. I think all recognize this." - Zebedee Nungak, from the Foreword As a history of the development of self-government in education, Nunavik: Inuit-Controlled Education in Arctic Quebec provides Native perspectives on formal education in Nunavik while offering readers a unique view into contemporary Inuit society. This book documents the development of education from the arrival of the first traders and missionaries in the mid-nineteenth century through the creation of the Kativik School Board and the evaluation of its operations by the Nunavik Education Task Force in the 1990s. Nunavik takes a detailed look at the complex debate of the Inuit of Northern Quebec about the purposes, achievements, and failures of the public schools in their communities, the first Inuit-controlled school district in Canada. Participants in these debates included elders who were educated traditionally, their children with a few years of education in mission and government schools, their grandchildren who attended southern high schools or residential schools, and current students and recent graduates of the Kativik schools. Qallunaat (non-Inuit) were also participants, as residents of Nunavik communities, parents of Inuit children, teachers, administrators, and expert consultants. Illustrated with rich historical photographs (many in colour) and maps from the collections of the Avataq Cultural Institute and the Makivik Corporation, Nunavik provides a uniquely Native perspective on school change in indigenous communities. |
Contents
1 Educational Change in an Arctic World | 1 |
2 A History of Nunavik | 21 |
3 Traditional Education and European Impact | 41 |
4 The James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement | 63 |
The First 10 Years | 85 |
6 Symposium 85 and Calls For Change | 103 |
7 Launching the Nunavik Educational Task Force | 125 |
8 The Communities Speak Out | 151 |
9 The Education Review Committee Takes Control | 175 |
The Task Force Report and the School Board Response | 213 |
Indigenous Models for Educational Change | 237 |
Appendices | 255 |
325 | |
329 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
administrators Adult Education Akulivik Alaska Arctic Quebec Aupaluk Avataq Cultural Institute Bay and Northern Canada Canadian co-operative communities consultation Courtesy of Avataq created curriculum discussion Education Committee education in Nunavik education system Educational Review Committee Educational Task Force ERC members established evaluation federal FM call-in funding Hudson Bay Hudson's Bay Company implementation indigenous instruction Inuit culture Inuit teachers Inukjuak Inuttitut issues Ivujivik James Bay Kangiqsualujjuaq Kangirsuk Kativik Regional Government Kativik School Board KSB proposal KSB response Kuujjuaq Kuujjuarapik learning Makivik Corporation mandate materials meeting Native needs NETF North Northern Quebec Agreement Northwest Territories Nunavik Educational Task organizations parents participation Pedagogical Working Groups Photo post-secondary problems program development proposal for action provincial Puvirnituq Qallunaat Quaqtaq Quebec Inuit recommendations role Salluit Satuigiarniq second language secondary self-government Sheila Watt-Cloutier skills staff Symposium 85 Tasiujaq teaching tion traditional Umiujaq Ungava Ungava Bay village