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Brown Bag Lunch: Drs. Fiona Walton & Sandy McAuley

Event Date:
Friday, March 2, 2012, 1:00 pm
Location:
SDU Main Building
Room:
Faculty Lounge
Values Infused Teaching in Nunavut Increasingly, UPEI Faculty members are involved in delivering programs in contexts outside Prince Edward Island and Canada. Some of these programs are offered in culturally diverse locations where English is not the first language of the learners. In addition, distance learning and blended program delivery often become important when offering programs off campus. Instructors in such contexts are called upon to deliver courses that not only teach the knowledge related to the course content, but also engage learners in ways that integrate aspects of local, cultural knowledge as well as venturing into teaching that uses both English and the first language of the students to promote learning. Fiona Walton and Sandy McAuley teach in the Nunavut Master of Education program where the integration of Inuit values and Inuit languages is a principle agreed upon in the Memorandum of Understanding with the Nunavut Department of Education. In this Brown Bag session they will share strategies and approaches gained through experience balancing the values integral to graduate education with those based on Inuit traditional ways of knowing, doing and being.
Contact Name
Krystal Mayne