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      Victorian ideologies of gender and the curriculum of the Regina Indian Industrial School, 1891-1910

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      Date
      2002
      Author
      ChiefCalf, April Rosenau
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      Gender is an intrinsic part of the colonization process. This thesis examines the social construction of gender in the colonial context of the Indian Industrial Schools of western Canada. Through a case study of the official and hidden curricula of the Regina Indian Industrial School, this thesis explores the attempted imposition of Victorian Euro-Canadian ideals of gender upon Aboriginal youth around the turn of the century. The curricula of the Regina Indian Industrial school, as well as other western Industrial schools, was shaped by Victorian ideologies of gender, which promoted separate spheres for men and women, a cult of domesticity, sexual division of labour, and binary oppositions. The curriculum of the Regina Indian Industrial School became a method of conveying Euro-Canadian discourses of Victorian gender ideals. While boys in the Indian industrial schools were educated to become breadwinners, girls were socialized into domestic roles. Employing feminist, post-colonial, and poststructural theories and research methods, this study provides a textual analysis of records of government and church officials regarding gender and the curriculum of the Regina Indian Industrial School.
      Degree
      Master of Education (M.Ed.)
      Department
      Educational Foundations
      Program
      Educational Foundations
      Supervisor
      Lyons, John; Hallman, Dianne M.
      Committee
      Miller, James R.; Korinek, Valerie J.; St. Denis, Verna
      Copyright Date
      2002
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-03112008-131952
      Subject
      assimilating First Nations people
      Regina trade school -- Saskatchewan
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