Using Multiculturalism as a "New Way of Seeing the World": Ontario Aboriginal Educational Policy According to Foucault

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  • Lorenzo Cherubini Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario Canada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18251/ijme.v13i2.430

Keywords:

Indigenous education, policy analysis, Canadian multicultural policies, Foucault

Abstract

By considering the Ontario First Nation, Métis, and Inuit Policy Framework (2007) from a Foucauldian perspective, the 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. This paper 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.

Author Biography

Lorenzo Cherubini, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario Canada

Associate Professor and Director of the Tecumseh Centre for Aboriginal Research and Education

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Published

2011-11-28

How to Cite

Cherubini, L. (2011). Using Multiculturalism as a "New Way of Seeing the World": Ontario Aboriginal Educational Policy According to Foucault. International Journal of Multicultural Education, 13(2). https://doi.org/10.18251/ijme.v13i2.430

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Articles (Peer-reviewed)