Overview
""Before schools were introduced to the Inuit, we were taught by our relatives."" In this picture book, Monica Ittusardjuat shares how she learned knowledge and skills in a time before being taken to residential school. She describes how children learned through playing games, imitating grown-ups, and observing adults around them.
Full Product Details
Author: Monica Ittusardjuat ,
Yong Ling Kang
Publisher: Inhabit Education Books Inc.
Imprint: Inhabit Education Books Inc.
Edition: English Edition
Dimensions:
Width: 20.30cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.236kg
ISBN: 9781774502051
ISBN 10: 1774502054
Pages: 26
Publication Date: 09 July 2020
Recommended Age: From 7 to 9 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Temporarily unavailable
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Reviews
"""Rich in teachings, Making a Whole Person: Traditional Inuit Education is energetically illustrated...Words and images walk and work well together in this important and memorable work of remembering traditional Inuit education! Highly Recommended"" * Quill & Quire *"
""Rich in teachings, Making a Whole Person: Traditional Inuit Education is energetically illustrated...Words and images walk and work well together in this important and memorable work of remembering traditional Inuit education! Highly Recommended"" * Quill & Quire *
Author Information
Monica Ittusardjuat was taken from her parents and sent to residential school at the age of seven, at a time when Inuit lived a subsistence way of life in winter camps and roamed around in spring and summer, following animals when they were plentiful. She went to three residential schools: Chesterfield Inlet, NWT (now Nunavut), for primary school, Churchill, Manitoba, for junior high, and St. Norbert, Manitoba, for high school. Monica graduated from McGill University in 1987. While teaching Community NTEP (Nunavut Teacher Education Program) in Nunavut, she earned her M.Ed. through the University of Prince Edward Island. She was the honour student for Baffin Island. She taught for many years in elementary schools, high schools, and teacher education programs, as well as in the Interpreter/Translator Program at Nunavut Arctic College. Monica tried to retire at the age of 60, but the habit of going to work was hard to break. She was the National Inuit Language Coordinator at Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami from 2016 to 2018 and is now Senior Inuktitut Editor at Inhabit Education, which she describes as her dream job. Yong Ling Kang was raised in Singapore. She is now based in Toronto, Ontario.
