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Pirurvik Preschool:
A Place to Grow
Where Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (IQ) ways of being meets Montessori methodology to create a uniquely effective, child-centered educational approach.
Pirurvik Preschool Beginnings
By: Pirurvik Preschool Published on: 27/05/2025The Pirurvik Preschool program was sparked by an idea and a discussion over a cup of tea. In 2012, after a difficult education meeting, Karen Nutarak Tununiq, the manager of the Nunavut Arctic College and Tessa Lochhead, a teacher trained in Montessori education, connected in hopes of addressing the frustrating lack of early-childhood education in their community. From a des...
Our Journey So Far
By: Pirurvik Preschool Published on: 25/03/2025Over the last 10 years, Pirurvik Preschool has been on a journey. What began as an idea, ignited from a desire to address the lack of early-childhood-education in Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet, NU), has grown into a wider community-led, child-centred initiative to decolonize early-childhood education, nourish our cultural roots and share what we are learning with other communities.
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