December 29th, 2019
- Carol Rowan with music by Sandra Hunt and Gary Russell
Carol Rowan came to work in Inuit Child Care while living in Inuit Nunangat because she wanted her children to have access to licensed childcare services informed by Inuit ways of knowing and being. She will share the vision and some of the work in making it happen. Carol Rowan’s Ph.D. thesis proposed thinking with land, water, and ice as pedagogical ideas for Inuit early childhood education.
As a published expert she has spoken around the world on this theme. Since 1982, when she first traveled to Inukjuak on the eastern shore of Hudson’s Bay, Carol has been a researcher and teacher in Inuit Nunangat and currently leads a course in Music and Movement at Nunavut Arctic College, in Iqaluit, Nunavut. She and her husband filmmaker Jobie Weetaluktuk have three children.
