SOC 1101 Lecture 96: Sociological Imagination of Aboriginal Education
2 Jul 2016
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As an aboriginal living in canada, the odds of completing high school and receiving an acceptance letter to university are meager. Even slimmer are the chances that this same. Perhaps your thoughts immediately conjure images of the lazy, drunks sprawled on the ground waiting for the shelter to open; or you see a flash of a cheap, dirty teenage whore turning tricks by the highway out of town. Maybe you respectfully acknowledge to yourself that these aren"t intellectuals, but hunters who spend time out searching their prey. You may have even heard that they need more money. Aboriginal and heard personal stories about the struggles they face. Although aboriginals have been educated in the canadian school system, to have graduated from high school is a tremendous achievement. Aboriginal student must almost always move from their community to attend university and fell unprepared and inadequate; as if strangers in their own country.
