EDU211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Oxymoron, Pentimento, Decolonization
20 Oct 2016
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A word on history there is no history only biography history is not the past, it is a story about the past. 5 phases of education: traditional aboriginal education, education by missionaries, residential schools, provincial integration, indian control of indian education there are all kids of overlap between these phases. 2: education by missionaries focus: assimilation ( rst assault on aboriginal identity) Interested in military alliances with the aboriginal peoples political and military alliances to promote the safety, increase the commerce, to help keep things settled was the job of the missionaries. 1820 rst proposal of boarding schools that would be christian based, focusing on children, industry and instruction if you want to change a people, start with their children. 1830 the policy shifted from military alliances to civilizing the. Indian populations were dropping due to disease, displacement and other aspects the need to contain and civilize reconciliation and repairing the relationship between.
