INSPIRED Vi@ Acadia

Professor Aylward is a faculty member in the School of Education at Acadia University began her teaching career in 1986 and has worked in schools across Canada including, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Nova Scotia, Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Shortly after completing her Masters’ in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto in 1993, she accepted a position as an instructor in the community based Nunavut Teacher Education program (offered by McGill University in conjunction with Nunavut Arctic College). From 1994-2003 she had the opportunity to live in several Nunavut communities and through her work experience in the teacher education program, Nunavut Department of Education and research collaborations with northern educators she became keenly interested in the role of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit in education policy and practices. She is a doctoral candidate at the University of South Australia and her dissertation maps the various discourses of the Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit conversation within the educational community.