Residential+Schools

1. What is the purpose of this school? 2. What does the physical space look like? Describe the school setting, what does this tell us about what matters? What is valued in this form of schooling? 3. What is the curriculum? What is worth knowing? What is not valued? 4. How is success determined in this form of schooling?

__Julia, Cassie & Wynette:__ 1. The purpose was to isolate children from their culture by taking them away from their communities and families. They were taught the ways of the european's - their cultural, and ways of life and that was their overall purpose. 2. There were alarms on the doors, so if someone tried to escape, they would be informed. It was bleak, with no colours. There were dorms for the males and females, and the sexes were kept separate. There was a dinning room in which was a mutual area, also many classrooms, and a church. 3. They were taught the basic school courses such as math, science, social, and english. The values of these schools, are christianity, and to isolate the children from their cultures. They taught them how to sow, cook, and become house keepers.

__Emily, Quinn, Justin & Eric:__ 1. What is the purpose of this school? The purpose of these schools were to get rid of the children’s knowedge of their culture and forcefully replaced with European culture. They taugh basic European skills. 2. What does the physical space look like? Describe the school setting, what does this tell us about what matters? What is valued in this form of schooling? The space looks like a prison, with separate dorms for boys and girls. The windows have bars over them from preventing people from escaping. There was a church in the middle. 3. What is the curriculum? What is worth knowing? What is not valued? European culture and knowledge was forced upon the students. Traditional aboriganal belives were discouraged. 4. How is success determined in this form of schooling? Being passive and accepting forced assimulation.

__Zachary, Sabrina, & Kelly:__ 1. To assimilate and take control of First Nation people. They also wanted to educate them of the European ways. They also wanted to eliminate the will and power of the First Nations to try and take power or to escape. 2. It was very dull, might have a cross in every room. It looked like a prison; it even had alarms in place. They didn’t value the First Nations culture and freedom. 3. They had all the core subjects, and they also taught life skills like farming and cooking. They left out creativity, independence, and culture. 4. All students were the same and obeyed the rules. They also needed to believe in God. They also needed to forget where they came from and use English as their first language.

1. What is the purpose of this school? Raveena, Josh, Bogdan: To ‘kill the Indian inside’. To teach the aboriginals the way of the Europeans. They also did this so that they could have more power over people without anybody having power over them. 2. What does the physical space look like? Describe the school setting, what does this tell us about what matters? What is valued in this form of schooling?

Raveena, Josh, Bogdan: It was a co-ed school but the girls and boys slept in two different dorms with the main building in the middle. It shows that the Europeans valued their culture a lot because the education building was bigger than the others. The place where they were located was situated among praries so kids couldn’t run away or their parents couldn’t sneak up to get them. 3. What is the curriculum? What is worth knowing? What is not valued? Raveena, Josh, Bogdan: Everything that the Europeans thought was worth knowing so for example, history, culture, math, science, etc. The aboriginal culture was not valued in the schools. If anyone was caught speaking their language, they would have been punished. 4. How is success determined in this form of schooling?

Raveena, Josh, Bogdan: Success is determined by learning fully the European way of living, not turning back or looking back to your old life, respecting the churches, priests and nuns. Basically what the Europeans thought was success.