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[email protected] Searching for Hidden Assumptions: a Critical Discourse Analysis of British Columbia’s Aboriginal Education Enhancement Agreement Policy Lawrence Alexander Michael Tarasoff BA, MA Submitted in Fulfilment of the Requirements of the Degree of Doctor of Education School of Education College of Social Sciences University of Glasgow June 2019 © 2019 ii ABSTRACT There exists persistent disparity in the achievement of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal public school students in British Columbia (BC), Canada. The international literature stresses that education has the power to improve the lives and futures of indigenous peoples through the use of government policy. With that in mind, this study sets out to critically analyse BC’s Aboriginal Education Enhancement Agreement (EA) policy texts to better understand how Aboriginal education in BC is shaped, formed and reformed in the production and interpretation of the province’s policy discourses.