Pauktuutit's Literacy Workshop for Inuit Women – Report & Recommendations

Workshop Designer & Resource Person

  • Janet Skinner, Executive Director, Labrador Literacy Information & Action Network.

Additional Workshop Resource People

  • Cate Sills, Executive Director, NWT Literacy Council;
  • Lisa Campbell, Community Development Facilitator, NWT Literacy Council;
  • Merryl Hammond, Consultancy for Alternative Education.

Workshop Discussion Documents

Before the workshop we developed a discussion document based on Pauktuutit's previous research called "Thinking About Literacy", and a Literacy Survey (see appendix). Pauktuutit translated these into three dialects of Inuktitut (Inuktitut syllabics, Inuinnaqtun and Labradorimiutitut) and distributed them to participants.

We also prepared flipcharts (see Figures) in English and Inuktitut syllabics, and a large wall map of the north.

graphic : Inuktitut flip charts
Inuktitut flip charts

Nunavut Literacy Council, Labrador Literacy Information & Action Network & Frontier College
January 2001