EDUC 2P65 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Language Ideology, Eurocentrism, Critical Pedagogy
8 Apr 2018
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List of recommendations of what canada has to do to work through past injustice. Aboriginal issues because trivialized as just get over it. Multicultural policy does not address past colonialism. Experience of aboriginal teachers show school space is not neutral. People who teach curriculum have agenda to push. Dominant cultures think effort to address diversity rejects broad understanding of self and nation and thus they resent aboriginal knowledge and history. Indigenous youth are recipients of the pain and trauma residential schools caused their ancestors. Go to school get good education and you can succeed like everyone else regardless of race yet school still only teaches white curriculum. In order to move forward we need to shift social attitudes. Must shift from seeing aboriginal culture as a barrier to building their culture to build strong identities and equality of access. Aboriginal and non aboriginal students need to understand aboriginal worldview so they can effect change for healthy cross cultural relationships.
