Teaching in a cold and windy place : change in an Inuit school / Joanne Tompkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tompkins, Joanne, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inuit--Education--Northwest Territories--Baffin Island.

Inuit.

Educational change--Northwest Territories--Baffin Island.

Educational change.

Educational change--Case studies.

Inuit--Education.

Nunavut--Baffin Island.

Tompkins, Joanne, 1961-.

Tompkins, Joanne.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

153 pages : map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [1998]

Summary:

In 1987 Joanne Tompkins travelled to the Baffin island community of Anurapaqtuq to take on the job of principal at the local school. This is the story of the four years she spent there and the many challenges she faced.

On her arrival in the Inuit village, Tompkins found struggling teachers and failing students in a community that was grappling with rampant social and economic change. Outlining strategies that worked and others that failed, she gives a vivid account of the day-to-day trials and rewards that she and community members experienced as they worked to create a productive and exciting school environment.

This engaging, informative, and well-documented account of school change is one of the first major works of its kind to come from the Canadian context.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [141]-144) and index.

ISBN:

080204168X

0802080308

OCLC:

39051970