"That Would Certainly Be Spoiling Them": Liberal Discourses of Social Studies Teachers and Concerns About Aboriginal Students

Abstract

This article explores a dynamic that Aboriginal people have known for a long time,namely, that despite the lofty rhetoric of liberalism about tolerance and equality,Aboriginal students are still at an academic disadvantage for succeeding in highschool. In particular, the author examines the role that social studies, the course thatostensibly explores social relations in Canada's past and present, might have inexacerbating the situation for Aboriginal high school students.