Northern brights

"Living off the land and the land-based approaches are really integral to all the courses we deliver," says KyIa Kakfwi Scott, program manager for Dechinta. In learning and using land-based practices, she adds, students come to understand the material being taught through the academic port...

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Published inThis (Toronto) Vol. 45; no. 2; p. 7
Main Author Hyslop, Katie
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Toronto This Magazine 01.09.2011
Subjects
Academic standards
Curricula
Higher education
Native North Americans
Canada
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Summary:"Living off the land and the land-based approaches are really integral to all the courses we deliver," says KyIa Kakfwi Scott, program manager for Dechinta. In learning and using land-based practices, she adds, students come to understand the material being taught through the academic portions of the course. Each term, up to 25 students, aboriginal and non-aboriginal, northerners and southerners, recent high school graduates to retirees, kick off courses by spending five weeks at home working through assigned readings. After that, they travel by plane to Blachford Lake Lodge, located about 220 kilometres east of Yellowknife, NWT, where classes are held outdoors. While not a degree-granting institution, the bush university is expanding to host one master's and one PhD student per year who want to do research based out of the Dechinta program, with the goal of having their own masters programming down the road.
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ISSN:1491-2678