Indigenous Education in Canada & Australia Essay

INDIGENOUS PERSONS AROUND THE WORLD HAD BEEN A MAJOR GOAL FOR SPLENDOUR AND THIS IS THE CASE THROUGHOUT HISTORY, NEVERTHELESS , THE LOCAL PEOPLE OF AUSTRALIA AND CANADA HAVE GOT QUITE RECENTLY FELT THE BURDEN. IT IS APPARENT THAT THROUGHOUT THE 1990’S TOWARDS THE EARLY 2000’S, A LOWER REGULAR OF EDUCATION RECEIVED BY INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS HAS A CLOSE SIMILARITY WITH THE EDUCATION RECEIVED BY LOCAL CANADIANS. THE nonindigenous COMES FROM STUDENTS IN BOTH AUSTRALIA AND CANADA HAVE SURPASS THE STANDARD OF INDIGENOUS STUDENT’S RESULTS THAT HAS TERRIBLY DISADVANTAGED THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES OF AUSTRALIA AND CANADA.

THE NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCE IN EDUCATION RESULTS IS CAUSED BY THE UNJUST TREATMENT OF LOCAL PEOPLE NATIONWIDE AND CANADA, FROM TEACHING DIFFERENT AND DISHONEST PROGRAMS, MISSING OUT ON BENEFICIAL OPPORTUNITIES, BEING UNABLE TO INCORPORATE THEIR VERY OWN NATIVE CUSTOMS AND EVEN THE HARSH AND HURTFUL BULLYING. THEY ARE ALL WELL-FOUNDED EXAMPLES OF THE POSSIBLE LACK OF QUALITY EDUCATION THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE HAVE RECEIVED. SINCE COLONISATION IN CANADA, MISSIONARIES HAD FOUNDED SCHOOLS FOR INDIGENOUS CHILDREN.

THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENTS BELIEVED THAT BY MAKING USE OF ASSIMILATION, LOCAL CHILDREN WOULD BECOME CIVILISED AND COULD BRING THEM INTO COLONIAL CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY. (WIKIPEDIA, 2014) THE TWO KEY TYPES OF SCHOOLS HAD BEEN BOARDING UNIVERSITIES THAT WERE SITUATED ON OR NEAR TO THE RESERVES AND INDUSTRIAL COLLEGES THAT WERE SITUATED IN THE URBAN CENTERS AND RESPONSIBLE FOR TRAINING LOCAL CHILDREN TO GET MANUAL WORK. DESPITE THE INDIGENOUS STUDENTS LEARNING READING, PUBLISHING, MATHS AND LABOURING SKILLS, THEY WERE HOWEVER TAKEN AWAY USING THEIR FAMILIES AND UNABLE TO SPEAK IN THEIR INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE. IN CERTAIN SCHOOLS, MACHINE PUNISHMENT WAS REQUIRED IF STUDENTS TALKED IN THEIR NATIVE LANGUAGES (AUSTRALIAN HUMAN PRIVILEGES COMMISSION 2010).

IN COMPARISON TO THIS KIND OF, WHEN DOWN UNDER EXPERIENCED IT’S ‘STOLEN GENERATION’ OF ASSIMILATING INDIGENOUS AND HALF-CAST CHILDREN INTO MODERN DAY SOCIETY, THE CHILDREN WERE NOT ONLY FORCED INTO ATTENDING FREQUENT SCHOOLING, BUT THEY WERE ALSO SOMETIMES, FORCED IN TO SLAVERY. (WIKIPEDIA, 2014) SOMETIMES, THE LOCAL CHILDREN COPED WITH THE INJURY OF BURNING OFF THEIR FAMILIES, AND FLOURISHED, DESPITE THE PREVAILING IMPRESSION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THEIR LACK OF AND SEPARATION FROM THEIR BIRTH FAMILIES, RESIDENTIAL AREAS, LAND AND CULTURE. YET , FOR MANY DIFFERENT CHILDREN, WHO HAD BEEN PLACED WITH UNSATISFACTORY CREATE PARENTS OR PERHAPS IN INSTITUTIONS, AS ADULTS THEY CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE TO CONQUER THEIR EXPERIENCE OF SHOCK, LOSS, ISOLATION, AND OFTEN, ABUSE. (NATIONAL APOLOGIES DAY COMMITTEE, 2014) VERY MUCH THE SAME, BOTH CANADA AND AUSTRALIA WERE HUGE SUPPORTERS OF ASSIMILATION AND WANTING LOCAL CHILDREN TO GROW UP LEARNING PRECISELY THE SAME THINGS BECAUSE nonindigenous CHILDREN.

ALTHOUGH THE STRUCTURE IN THE TWO COUNTRIES HAD BEEN SIMPLY TRYING TO ‘HELP AREA GROW’, THESE WERE IN THE LONG RUN, RENDERING IT MORE DIFFICULT INTENDED FOR INDIGENOUS CITIZENS TO BECOME APPROVED INTO SOCIETIES. STATISTICS SHOW THAT IN CANADA, MUCH MORE THAN ONE-THIRD OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE HAVE NOT COMPLETED HIGH SCHOOL. (AUCC. CA, 2010) THESE LOW RESULTS CONTROL FROM THE GOVERNMENT’S EFFORTS TO ‘HELP AREA GROW’ WHICH CAN HAVE BACK-FIRED AS MOST INDIGENOUS PEOPLE BELIEVED THAT THE WORK MADE ARE NOT HUMANE AND COMPLETELY SILLY. IT IS APPARENT IN MANY CREATED SOURCES THAT IN THE TWO COUNTRIES, RADICAL CHILDREN WERE BULLIED AND ISOLATED VIA MOST OTHER nonindigenous STUDENTS.

THIS IS A MAJOR DEMISE FOR THE INDIGENOUS KIDS AS UNIVERSITY WAS NOT ENTERTAINING OR EXCITING BY ANY MEANS AND THEN FOR THEM, GENERALLY THERE WASN’T VERY MUCH REASON TO PUT ANY EFFORTS INTO A THING THEY WERE FORCED INTO ATTENDING. (ANDREW SHARPE, 2009) BOTH EQUALLY CANADA’S AND AUSTRALIA’S STATISTICS ARE VERY COMPARABLE AND CAN BE WHEN COMPARED TO EACH OTHER WITH ROUGHLY SIMILAR LEVEL OF RESULTS. ALTHOUGH, AUSTRALIA’S STATISTICS TELL THAT IN 2007, 64% OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AGED 18-24 YEARS HAD ACCOMPLISHED GRADE 12. (HUMAN PRIVILEGES, 2012) THIS KIND OF SCIENTIFIC FIGURE SHOWS HOW OVER TIME, THE ‘YOUNGER GENERATION’ OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO PAY MORE AND EVEN MORE INTEREST WITHIN THEIR EDUCATION.

AT SOME POINT AS PERIOD PASSED SIMPLY BY INTO THE EARLY 2000’S, EDUCATION IN EQUALLY CANADA AND AUSTRALIA STARTED TO BE AN ESSENTIAL FACTOR OF INNOVATING INTO A GREAT ‘ESTABLISHED’ MATURE. BEING INFORMED AND/OR HAVING AN EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND OPENED MANY GLASS WINDOWS OF CHANCES FOR MOST, RESULTING IN MAINTAINING A WELL-PAYING JOB, MAKING IT EASIER TO ASSIMILATE IN SOCIETY AND ALSO BEING ABLE TO MAKE CONSCIOUS DECISIONS FOR THE BETTER.

THIS CAN INCLUDE UPHOLDING A PROPER LIFESTYLE WHICH MAY BE DEVELOPED AND USED TO COMPLETE ONTO ADDITIONAL FAMILY MEMBERS FOR THE CLEARER RELATIVES WELL-BEING. (CPRN, 2007) NOT MERELY DID EDUCATION BECOME A BIG PART OF GROWING INTO A WELL- ROUNDED PERSON, IT ALSO OFFERED SOCIETY WITH DYNAMIC EXTERNALITIES ASSOCIATED WITH FINANCIAL GROWTH; STATIC KNOWLEDGE DRIP OVERS; NON-MARKET EXTERNAL REWARDS SUCH AS REDUCED CRIMINAL ACTIVITY; AND SOCIABLE BENEFITS ASSOCIATED WITH TAXATION. (RIDDELL, 2006) IN CONTRAST TO CANADA, DOWN UNDER HAS MADE VARIOUS EFFORTS TO TRY AND MAKE UP FOR EACH OF THE SUFFERING THE GOVERNMENTS BROUGHT ON DURING THE COMPRESSION PROCESS. PROBABLY THE MOST SIGNIFICANT FIRST steps to remission was made in 1990, when the establishment from the Council pertaining to Aboriginal Reconciliation was made by law of the national Parliament.

An additional significant minute for reconciliation was when the human rights and equivalent opportunity commission presented ‘Bringing Them Home’ – the Report in the National Inquiry into the Separating of Original and Torres Strait Islander Children from their families offered to Government Parliament in 1997. (Australian Human Legal rights Commission, 2010). Through each of the memorial date ranges and occasions for getting back together, Australia’s ‘National Sorry Day’, held every year on the 26th of May possibly is a conference that is close to many people’s hearts, and may continue to be a very momentous day time.

Despite the a large number of attempts for reconciliation in Australia, assimilating Local children right into a modern day contemporary society with education will sadly always be recalled by the Local community for many years to come. Although, since education can give you so many beneficial life-long skills, it is positive that more and more Indigenous individuals are attempting to become involved, especially after a past of such negativity.