Canadian Education System

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In this paper, I will identify schools, education systems, ethnocentrism and enculturation from the perspective of anthropology in order to indicate the intimate relationship between them. As well, I will figure out the meaning underlying the link between them and show how they influence on each other and go together.
Firstly, schools are a main part of education which has a great influence on how schools run. According to Gorp, school is considered as an institution that promotes understanding of education (p. 119). Education system is a wide concept, which contains methods of schooling, knowledge of all fields, and the manner to maintain educational institutions including schools stably and systematically. Due to that function of education system, it orientates and decides school curriculums, textbooks, in which contents are chosen to teach in schools. So, schools are affected by the management of …show more content…

As mentioned above, education systems would like to become unique, so letting enculturation join subjects in schools is improving the cultures of their own education system, as well as giving their students a chance to acknowledge their own culture and explore their perspectives about their cultural belongings such as origins, race, history, etc. For instance, students in Canada who learn Canadian history is a must (p. 163, Robbins). In Canadian history, students will learn not only the progress of Canadian societies through different periods, but also the progress of Canada in general, by which Canadian students conceive what they are having and need to conserve and develop. The obligation of learning Canadian history in Canadian schools is one of illustration strengthening enculturation in school through the controlling of education system. Therefore, schools give students enculturation due to the conception of the importance of enculturation in education

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