Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal articles from March 2000

Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal archives from March 2000

Educating citizens for a pluralistic society.
March 22, 2000... ********** This collection of articles is the result of a research project entitled "Educating Citizens for a Pluralistic Society," which was funded by a grant from Canadian Heritage/Patrimoine canadien awarded to Rosa Bruno-Jofre, then...

Public schooling and citizenship education in Canada.
March 22, 2000... ABSTRACT/RESUME This article examines the role of public schools in Canada as agents of citizenship education. The historical development of citizenship education in Canada is outlined and the current neglect of citizenship education in...

Public schooling in English Canada: Addressing difference in the context of globalization.
March 22, 2000... ABSTRACT/RESUME Our understanding of Canadian polity formation is based on a pluralistic moral democracy that recognizes a fluid concept of cultural retention, differentiated citizenship as explained by Kymlicka, and a social ethic of...

Pluralism, corporatism, and educating citizens.
March 22, 2000... ABSTRACT/RESUME Educating for citizenship is faced with many obstacles not the least of which is the ambiguity of citizenship itself. Problematic, too, are the possible forms such an education may take, since schooling is influenced by...

Examining higher education and citizenship in a global context of neoliberal restructuring.
March 22, 2000... ABSTRACT/RESUME My paper begins by articulating a neo-Gramscian framework to conceptualize issues of citizenship and the recent changes to Canadian higher education. This framework is adopted from the writing of Jacob Torfing who provides...

Canadian pluralism, the charter, and citizenship education.
March 22, 2000... ABSTRACT/RESUME As the constitutional document defining the entitlement of Canadians, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms establishes the legal parameters of citizenship in Canada. Since its adoption in 1982. not only individuals but...

Multiculturalism and citizenship: The status of "visible minorities" in Canada.
March 22, 2000... ABSTRACT/RESUME It is never a strongly contested view that Canada has "grown up" as a multicultural society. Canada's dynamic process of growth in ethnocultural relations has largely been influenced by three principal forces -- the...

A white paper on aboriginal education in universities.
March 22, 2000... ABSTRACT/RESUME In this paper, I recount the circumstances which have caused me to question deeply my own complicity in Eurocentric education, which is really all we have to offer our Aboriginal students. Coming from my position as a...

School and curriculum reform: Manitoba frameworks & multicultural teacher education.
March 22, 2000... ABSTRACT/RESUME In the 1990s Manitoba, in common with all other provinces in Canada, undertook an extensive program of centrally-driven school and curriculum reform. At the forefront of this reform movement in this province was a series of...

From heritage to international languages: Globalism and Western Canadian trends in heritage language education.
March 22, 2000... ANTONIO (TONY) J. TAVARES ABSTRACT/RESUME Throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, educational systems in Canada responded to diversity in their populations by expanding heritage language programming in public schools. The support for...

The TimeLinks Image Archive: A case study in using photographic images in teaching about ethnic relations.
March 22, 2000... ABSTRACT/RESUME The TimeLinks Image Archive (http://timelinks.merlin.mb.ca/) contains more than two thousand visual representations of life in Manitoba in the second decade of the twentieth century. It provides an unparalleled opportunity...