Historical And Ideological Dimensions Of Canadian Education Flashcards
Education as an ideology
Associated with progress
Ideology
Associate certain words with certain meanings
Hegemony
Justifies and maintains status quo. Represent dominant social order
Historical dimensions of Canadian education
School system is a recent development not anagram element in social life
Created and modified by social factors and it has often been subjected to contests room and resistance by a number Of groups and individuals
Complex process that involves teachers, students, parents
Women and men represent very diverse communities
Oriented to change
Indigenous beginnings
Authority was not something that existed
Story telling
Kinship (part of a social group)
European education and colonization
Introduced by missionaries and religious orders that belonged to different Christian denominations
Idea of universality
Myths of ignorant or noble savage (Rousseau)
Undermine and romanticize aboriginals
The case of the Inuit
Became interested into the mercantile era of fur trading
Concern with preserving Inuit traditions
Presented as noble savages unable to adapt to the modern world
Nomadic
Living the life of a nomad : wandering
European education and colonization
Destructive toward indigenous knowledge
Naive and Thus inferior
Alienated children from their kinship and community
Assimilation; breakdown traditional social relationships and indigenous patterns in order to transplant European social and cultural forms
Regimentation
The idea of an idle person is a bad person
Must always keep busy to be contributing to society.
Routine - no freedom