Could new land skills handbook be the death to cultural learning?

By Darrell Greer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Kivalliq News To say the new land skills program handbook for Nunavut schools is a total dud in the eyes of a former educator would be a an understatement. Mike Shouldice of Rankin Inlet said the new handbook on land skills and school trips will essentially end the land skills program. The former president of Nunavut Arctic College said the expectations of the new handbook, approved by cabinet and scheduled to go to print in the coming month, are totally unrealistic. “In my opinion, this will essentially kill the land skills program and any cultural learning and content,” he said. “Who the heck wrote this, somebody in the federal government? “It is risk management within the Government of Nunavut and Education is pushing…

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