Teaching in a Cold and Windy Place: Change in an Inuit School

by Joanne Tompkins

Joanne Tompkins travelled to the Baffin Island community of Anurapaqtuq to take on the job of principal at the local school. This is the fascinating story of her experiences in the four years she spent there and the many challenges she faced.

On her arrival in the Inuit village, Tompkins found struggling teachers and failing students in a community that was grappling with social and economic change. Outlining strategies that worked and others...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802080308
• ISBN13: 9780802080301
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"