Episode 13: Decolonizing Education
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Warning: This podcast episode contains details of residential schools that may be upsetting. Canada’s Indian Residential School Survivors and Family Crisis Line is available 24 hours a day at 1-866-925-4419.
In this episode of Go Smudge Yourself, Jen Green discusses residential schools and the Canadian public schools, Pierre Bourdieu (cultural theorist) and the reproduction of social inequality through education systems. She also compares Indigenous Knowledge systems with the Western Knowledge system, as well as opens up about her decision to leave university. During this discussion, she highlights what she believes needs to change in Western academia to be safer for Indigenous Peoples.
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Links Mentioned:
Mapping the missing: Former residential school sites in Canada and the search for unmarked graves
https://globalnews.ca/news/8074453/indigenous-residential-schools-canada-graves-map/ Canadian Association of Public Schools https://caps-i.ca/education-in-canada/
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People Mentioned: Pierre Bourdieu - Cultural Reproduction and Social Reproduction https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781351018142-3/cultural-reproduction-social-reproduction-pierre-bourdieu
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