Gap in Education between Aboriginal and Non-aboriginal People
Topic
My Topic for this assignment will focus on the different factors that explain the gap in Education between the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. Assimilation will also be discussed as the main factor in transforming the lives of native children. Further, the content of my essay will tackle the different negative consequences of Assimilation and racism on the children and on the people responsible for their growth.
Research Question
How does the education system contributed to the continuing existence of the gap in education and performance between the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in the Canadian society? In this paper, I will answer this question by examining certain education systems and the factors regarding education, which affects Aboriginal people in residential schools.
Throughout the years of formal schooling, language has been playing the function in shaping and developing the Native in Minority Education in Canada. English is taught to Native children because it is the common language in Canada. The dominant language has been playing a role in assimilating the culture of Native people so they would be able to adapt into the modernized and more industrialized society. As we discuss the effect on the dominant language into the Native culture, we will move to Native learning teaching processes. North Baffin Inuit have two different approaches in education. One learning process is the Isumaqsayuq, which is “the process of passing along knowledge through the observation and imitation embedded in daily family and community activities, integration into the immediate shared social structure being the principal goal”(Battiste, 140). This teaching primary goal is to develop the values and identity of a learner through the built relationship between other people. The other learning process, which contradicts the former one, is the ilisayuq which is “the teaching which involves a high level of abstract verbal mediation in a
My Topic for this assignment will focus on the different factors that explain the gap in Education between the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. Assimilation will also be discussed as the main factor in transforming the lives of native children. Further, the content of my essay will tackle the different negative consequences of Assimilation and racism on the children and on the people responsible for their growth.
Research Question
How does the education system contributed to the continuing existence of the gap in education and performance between the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in the Canadian society? In this paper, I will answer this question by examining certain education systems and the factors regarding education, which affects Aboriginal people in residential schools.
Throughout the years of formal schooling, language has been playing the function in shaping and developing the Native in Minority Education in Canada. English is taught to Native children because it is the common language in Canada. The dominant language has been playing a role in assimilating the culture of Native people so they would be able to adapt into the modernized and more industrialized society. As we discuss the effect on the dominant language into the Native culture, we will move to Native learning teaching processes. North Baffin Inuit have two different approaches in education. One learning process is the Isumaqsayuq, which is “the process of passing along knowledge through the observation and imitation embedded in daily family and community activities, integration into the immediate shared social structure being the principal goal”(Battiste, 140). This teaching primary goal is to develop the values and identity of a learner through the built relationship between other people. The other learning process, which contradicts the former one, is the ilisayuq which is “the teaching which involves a high level of abstract verbal mediation in a