'Reforming Education in Greenland: Recognizing the Culture and Identity of Greenlandic Children' - Oct. 14, 2011

Friday, Oct. 14, 12-1 p.m.
Diplomacy Building (4500 Diplomacy Dr.), Conference Room, 5th Floor

ISER and the new Center for Alaska Education Policy Research invite you to join us for a lunchtime talk by Aviâja Egede Lynge, a visiting scholar from University of Greenland, on education reform in that country. She is an Inuk from Greenland who has worked with school reform there for five years and also teaches educational anthropology.

Greenland is a former colony of Denmark, and used the Danish school system for 250 years. But in 2002, Greenland passed the first law requiring the education system to take into account the culture and identity of Greenlandic children. Lynge will talk about efforts to put the 2002 law into practice, focusing on results and experiences of public school teachers. Her visit to Alaska is supported by the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS).

The Diplomacy Building is at the corner of Tudor Road and Tudor Centre Drive in Anchorage. FREE PARKING. Call (907) 786-7710 if you need directions.