ERIC Number: EJ1104925
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011
Pages: 15
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ISSN: EISSN-1934-5267
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Using Multiculturalism as a "New Way of Seeing the World": Ontario Aboriginal Educational Policy According to Foucault
Cherubini, Lorenzo
International Journal of Multicultural Education, v13 n2 2011
By considering the "Ontario First Nation, Métis, and Inuit Policy Framework" (2007) from a Foucauldian perspective, this paper presents a policy discourse of knowledge, power, and identity from a multicultural education framework. Through Foucauldian theoretical perspectives, the paper creates alternate possibilities in confronting the ways to understand public educational policy--considered the purpose of multicultural education. It invites teachers, administrators, district leaders, and policy makers to consider how educational policy in one Canadian province strategically situates Aboriginal peoples in a historical context, exercises Foucauldian notions of power and care, and potentially endorses the subjectification of Aboriginal peoples through recommendations of self-identification practices.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multicultural Education, Cultural Pluralism, Canada Natives, Eskimos, Indigenous Knowledge, Educational Policy, Public Policy, Policy Analysis, Role of Education, Social Theories, Power Structure, Self Concept, Data Collection
International Journal of Multicultural Education. Eastern University, 1300 Eagle Road, St. Davids, PA 19087. Tel: 610-341-1597; Fax: 484-581-1276; e-mail: ijme@eastern.edu; Web site: http://www.ijme-journal.org
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Administrators; Policymakers; Teachers
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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