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Analysis Of Verna St. Denis Article On Aboriginal Injustice

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Aboriginal Injustice In Verna St. Denis’ article, Silencing Aboriginal Curricular Content and Perspectives Through Multiculturalism, she is able to persuasively criticize the government’s use of multiculturalism in order to elude the significance of Aboriginal history – both in public education and national politics. The contents of this paper will include: The author’s main argument and the strengths of her evidence, my own personal opinions of the article, the implications and relevance to the current education system, my own personal philosophies regarding the author’s argument, the incorporation of aboriginal studies in technology education, and finally, the movement forward in recognition and reconciliation of Aboriginal history. The purpose of this paper is to analyze Verna St. Denis’ article and to respond with my own personal philosophies in regards to …show more content…

Denis, 2011, p. 306-307). To further explain her thesis, she claims that multiculturalism is used by the government of Canada as a method of colonizing Aboriginal people and diverting the issue of recognition and retribution for the Aboriginal people (St. Denis, 2011). St. Denis proposed at a provincial social science curriculum discussion that Aboriginal studies should be considered a separate course in the Canadian curriculum as opposed to being combined with social studies and history (St. Denis, 2011). The suggestion that was made was interjected by the comment, “Aboriginal people are not the only people here” (St. Denis, 2011, p.306). Although the comment may hold truth, the author uses that remark to further provide evidence that multiculturalism is used as a form of colonialism (St. Denis,

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