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Letting go of perfect: One Qallunaat teacher’s journey of positionality using narrative inquiry in Nunavik Balfe, William Joseph

Abstract

Instead of positioning one as unproblematic, teachers may benefit from examining the cracks in their own lives as an intersection where mutual dialogue and respect for each other may begin. Using narrative inquiry, personal journal entries, artwork, scholarship, and memory excavation, one white teacher, having returned to the South, examines his and his family's four year story of living and teaching in an Inuit community in Nunavik (Northern Quebec).

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Title
Letting go of perfect: One Qallunaat teacher’s journey of positionality using narrative inquiry in Nunavik
Creator
Balfe, William Joseph
Date Issued
2013-01-30
Description
Instead of positioning one as unproblematic, teachers may benefit from examining the cracks in their own lives as an intersection where mutual dialogue and respect for each other may begin. Using narrative inquiry, personal journal entries, artwork, scholarship, and memory excavation, one white teacher, having returned to the South, examines his and his family's four year story of living and teaching in an Inuit community in Nunavik (Northern Quebec).
Subject
Nunavik; Inuit Education; Qallunaat; Inuit; Narrative Inquiry; KSB
Genre
Graduating Project
Type
Text
Language
eng
Series
University of British Columbia. LLED 590
Date Available
2013-04-11
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0075756
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44152
Affiliation
Education, Faculty of; Language and Literacy Education (LLED), Department of
Campus
UBCV
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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