Building resilience in Inuit schools: community-centred research
By Heather Desserud How can you build pathways for resilience, professional development and traditional knowledge in Inuit education? That’s what the project “Effective teachers for successful students: An investigation of the preparation and resiliency of Northern educators” co-led by Dr. Ruth Kane and Kathy Snow, is working to find out. Following her Fulbright panel presentation in June, I interviewed Kathy and her panel/team members Jodie Lane, Director of Education for the Nunatsiavut Government Department of Education and Economic Development; and Diane Obed, an Inuk researcher originally from Hopedale, Nunatsiavut, studying and lecturing on Indigenous education in Halifax. All three share a passion for...