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Euro-Canadians try and play it both ways when we use the word “education.” On the one hand we claim open-mindedness by asserting platitudes like ‘all societies have education’ — including Indigenous societies. And on the other hand, we then frequently refer to Indigenous people as “uneducated”--casu...
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ftdatacite:10.17613/hdy5-0h46 2023-12-31T10:08:36+01:00 Some honest talk about Non-Indigenous Education ... Rasmussen, Derek 2011 https://dx.doi.org/10.17613/hdy5-0h46 https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:61091/ en eng Humanities Commons Attribution Great transformation Polanyi, Karl Deschooling society Illich, Ivan Inuit--Education Indigenous peoples--European colonies Indigenous peoples--Education Racism in education Education and state Scott, James C. ScholarlyArticle Text article-journal Article 2011 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.17613/hdy5-0h46 2023-12-01T12:21:10Z Euro-Canadians try and play it both ways when we use the word “education.” On the one hand we claim open-mindedness by asserting platitudes like ‘all societies have education’ — including Indigenous societies. And on the other hand, we then frequently refer to Indigenous people as “uneducated”--casually denigrating them because they weren’t admitted into or didn’t graduate out of the deliberately narrow funnel we've invented: European institutional education. This can be termed the “Restaurant Theory of Education”, wherein we think of the relationship between Education (scarce) and cultural trans-mission (wide) as being like the relationship between restaurants and food. Restaurants can be found in most Euro-Canadian neighborhoods—as can schools—butt we don't believe that without restaurants we would starve. If we come across a society without schools, then we assume that there has to be some sort of Education system hidden in the social structure somewhere and we just have to suss it out. ... Text inuit DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Euro-Canadians try and play it both ways when we use the word “education.” On the one hand we claim open-mindedness by asserting platitudes like ‘all societies have education’ — including Indigenous societies. And on the other hand, we then frequently refer to Indigenous people as “uneducated”--casually denigrating them because they weren’t admitted into or didn’t graduate out of the deliberately narrow funnel we've invented: European institutional education. This can be termed the “Restaurant Theory of Education”, wherein we think of the relationship between Education (scarce) and cultural trans-mission (wide) as being like the relationship between restaurants and food. Restaurants can be found in most Euro-Canadian neighborhoods—as can schools—butt we don't believe that without restaurants we would starve. If we come across a society without schools, then we assume that there has to be some sort of Education system hidden in the social structure somewhere and we just have to suss it out. ... |
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