Historical And Ideological Dimensions Of Canadian Education

Question 1

Education as an ideology

Answer 1

Associated with progress

Question 2

Ideology

Answer 2

Associate certain words with certain meanings

Question 3

Hegemony

Answer 3

Justifies and maintains status quo. Represent dominant social order

Question 4

Historical dimensions of Canadian education

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Indigenous beginnings

Answer 5

Authority was not something that existed

Story telling

Kinship (part of a social group)

Question 6

European education and colonization

Answer 6

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

Question 7

The case of the Inuit

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Nomadic

Answer 8

Living the life of a nomad : wandering

Question 9

European education and colonization

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Regimentation

Answer 10

The idea of an idle person is a bad person
Must always keep busy to be contributing to society.
Routine - no freedom