Crosswords : language, education, and ethnicity in French Ontario / Monica Heller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heller, Monica.

Series:

Contributions to the sociology of language

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French language--Social aspects--Ontario.

French language.

French-Canadians--Ontario--Language.

French-Canadians.

Language and education--Ontario.

Language and education.

Language and culture--Ontario.

Language and culture.

Ontario--Ethnic relations.

Ontario.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 252 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Based on a long-term ethnographic and historical study of French-language minority education in Ontario, this text addresses a range of issues of interest to those concerned with minority languages, particularly in minority language education.

Contents:

Intro

Chapter 1: Difference and dominance: Language, ethnicity and education

1.0. Introduction: Language, ethnicity and power in Canada

1.1. Franco-Ontarian education and problems of difference and dominance

1.2. Minority language education

1.3. Outline of the book

1.4. Sources of data

Chapter 2: The French in Canada: A historical overview

2.0. French ethnicity: Stratification, assimilation and mobilization

2.1. Colonization and la Nouvelle France (1534-1763)

2.2. Conquest to Confederation (1763-1867)

2.3. Internal migration (1867-1960)

2.4. Ethnic stratification and patterns of bilingualism

2.5. The ethnic mobilization of the 1960s

2.6. The French-language minority in Ontario

2.7. Franco-Ontarians in the 1990s

Chapter 3: Language in the ideology and politics of ethnic mobilization

3.0. The contested terrain of language

3.1. French and English as linguistic capital

3.2. French and English as ethnic emblems

3.3. Consequences of mobilization: Blurred boundaries and new hierarchies

Chapter 4: The school system as border patrol

4.0. The school as ethnic institution

4.1. La gestion: Who sets the rules of the game?

4.2. Les non parlants and le multiculturalisme: Who is allowed to play?

4.3. Power and subordination: The limits of current strategies

Chapter 5: Brokers and boundaries: French-language minority schools in Toronto

5.0. The Franco-Ontarian population and the French-language schools of Toronto

5.1. The schools: Ideology and practice of French-language education

5.2. The parents: Competing interests in the struggle for bilingualism

5.3. The students: Language choice and social boundaries

5.4. Brokers and boundaries

Chapter 6: Projet "Coopération et découverte"

6.0. From ethnography to action-research

6.1. The development of a teaching approach.

6.2. Projet "Cooperation et decouverte" in the classroom

6.3. The limits of pedagogical interventions

Chapter 7: Franco-Ontarian education and the possibilities for pluralism

7.0. Power, boundaries and the distribution of resources

7.1. Language practices and the contradictions of Franco-Ontarian education

7.2. Conclusion

Notes

References

List of Abbreviations

Subject Index

Author Index.