EDU211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Indian Act, Canadian Confederation, Indian Register

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Education
• Course: EDU211
• Professor: Dwayne Donald

Document Summary

What canadian history has felt like for aboriginal people. Five phases of education: traditional aboriginal education, education by missionaries, residential schools. Discourse refers to how we think and communicate about people, things, the social organization of the society, and the relationships among the three. Discourse typically emerges out of social institutions like media and politics, and by virtue of giving structure and order to language and thought, it structures and orders our lives, relationships with others, and society. It thus shapes what we are able to think and know at any point in time. In this sense, sociologists frame discourse as a productive force because it shapes our thoughts, ideas, beliefs, values, identity, interactions with others and our behavior. In doing so it produces much of what occurs within us and within society. Sociologists see discourse as embedded in and emerging out relations of power, because those in control of institutions control its formation.