Southern teachers are not always sensitive to other cultures

I have heard of one established, gifted Inuit artist who took courses … and lost so much self esteem that he/she could no longer produce! The teachers coming north are sometimes very inexperienced and have not lived with other cultures. They are too often curriculum centred and ignore the larger context in which the course [...]

Social inequalities and social institutions

Social inequalities and social institutions
… my language was inadequate to describe what I was feeling intuitively. I could explain it using academic jargon. But when I tried to explain my intuitive feelings about Iqaluit social inequality and social institutions, the nonacademic terms resonated as narrow mindedness, over simplification of the social dynamics at work here. [...]