SOCI 3410H Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Indian Act
5 Apr 2016
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Founding principle was that aboriginal people were a problem that needed to be solved. Schooling was supposed to intervene in people"s lives: separate from their family, remove the indianness to solve the problem. Educaion gap between aboriginal people and the general populaion. Equity disparity between aboriginal educaion opportuniies and those of other. An understanding of educaion for aboriginal people draws atenion to their unique experiences. Sensibility to indigenous aboriginal knowledge, as well as to diverse forms and systems of aboriginal educaion. Aboriginal populaions younger than rest of populaion with 46% under age 25 compared to 32% for the rest of the populaion. Early 1600s formal european-style educaion of aboriginal children begins in new. Late 1700s early 1800s protestant churches also became acive in educaion of. 1867 confederaion and 1876 indian act, indian educaion policy becomes federal responsibility: shited their power to the church didn"t want to have to deal with it.
