SOCIOL 1Z03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Canadian Indian Residential School System, Black Canadians, Cultural Capital

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 1Z03
• Professor: Lina Samuel

Document Summary

Education: education, as an institution, is responsible for the transmission of particular knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes deemed desirable in a given society. Generally speaking, we can look at education as a means of producing good citizens formal education that occurs in institutional settings tends to be regulated and organized by the state. Informal education involves learning activities that people seek outside of formally structured educational spaces contribute to social reproduction by stressing societal norms and values, education works to socialize the next generation. European morality and consciousness colonizing attitudes paved the way for the great tragedy that marked one of canada"s earliest forays into formal education: residential schooling. Recent research is revealed the full extent of the abuses suffered by indigenous children in these schools, including widespread physical and sexual abuse. In june 2008, prime minister stephen harper offered a formal apology to the approximately surviving former-students of the residential school system.