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Research

NWT Literacy Council Research

• Early Childhood and Poverty: Summary of Research, June 2012 (PDF - 2.17 MB)
• Factors that Facilitate Adult Learner Success in the NWT (PDF - 1.67 MB) NEW
• Languages of the Land: A Resource Manual for Aboriginal Language Activists (PDF - 689 KB)
• Made in the North: Policy and Practices Exchange on Skills Development - Evaluation Report (PDF 1.45 MB) NEW
• Making a Case for Literacy: The State of Adult Literacy and Adult Basic Education in the NWT
  • Making a Case for Literacy – Chapters 1-3 (PDF - 2.52 MB)
  • Making a Case for Literacy – Chapters 4-6 and Appendice (PDF - 2.13 MB)
• Multiple Literacies: Improving our Support for Aboriginal Literacy in the NWT (PDF - 223 KB)
• Newcomers’ Initiative Final Report (PDF - xxx KB)
• Non-academic Outcomes, Barriers and Success Factors - Powerpoint presentation, June 2011 (PDF version - 2.17 MB)
• Non-Academic Outcomes, Research among Adult Literacy Learners - Powerpoint presentation (PDF - 2.17 MB)
• Pihuaqtiuyugut: We are the long distance walkers. (Museum Exhibit)
  • Celebrating The Opening of the Exhibit (slideshow)
  • Learning New Skills (slideshow)
  • A Virtual Tour of the Exhibit (slideshow)
• Reframing Training and Support through Technology (PDF - 1.31 MB)
• Seniors’ Literacy in the NWT (PDF - 712 KB)
• The Ulukhaktok Literacies Research Project (Phase 2)
  This phase of the research project is a visual repatriation project that includes the community of Ulukhaktok, the NWT Literacy Council and the University of Lethbridge, the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre in Yellowknife, the Kitikmeot Heritage Centre and the British Museum. For information contact Helen Balanoff at the NWT Literacy Council at helen@nwtliteracy.ca
  • Sleeping Words with Helen Kitekudlak - video (MP4 - 6.74 MB)
  • Pihuaqtiuyugut: We are the Long Distance Walkers
    The story of the Kangiryuarmiut traditional travels and the Ulukhaktok Literacy Research Project.
    Available from the NWT Literacy Council ($20) or from the Yellowknife Book Cellar.
  • Pitquhiraluavut (Our Ways): Our Story and How It Is Told - Conference slide presentation (Powerpoint presentation - 47.78 MB)
• The Ulukhaktok Literacies Research Project (Phase 1)
  • "I Was Grown up Before I Was Born": Wisdom in Kangiryarmuit Life Stories (journal article)
  • This is the Way We Were Told - Conference Paper (PDF - 351 KB)
  • Do My Literacies Count as Literacy? - Journal Article (PDF - 464 KB)
  • Living Literacies - Slide Presentation (PDF - 3.06 MB)

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