Bilingual today, united tomorrow : official languages in education and Canadian federalism / Matthew Hayday.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hayday, Matthew, 1977-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Official Languages in Education Program (Canada).

Language policy--Canada--History.

Language policy.

Language and education--Government policy--Canada.

Language and education.

Education, Bilingual--Canada.

Education, Bilingual.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hayday shows how the language programs and policies initiated by the Trudeau government supported French-Canadian and Acadian minority communities, enabling them to develop minority language education systems and laying the groundwork for the minority language education rights contained in section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He examines how the dynamics of Canadian federalism shaped the implementation and development of language policy in six Canadian provinces and shows how advocates of these programs - politicians, bureaucrats, parents, lobbyists, and teachers - worked to ensure their success. These dynamic programs not only guaranteed minority language education rights but dramatically increased access to French second language instruction, particularly through the innovative new sector of French immersion.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Tables

Acknowledgments

Acronyms

Introduction: A Linguistic Divide, a Crisis of Canadian Unity

A Century of Language Conflict in Canada

From Royal Commission to Government Policy, 1963–1970

Growing Pains and Intergovernmental Squabbles, 1970–1976

Lévesque’s Gambit Fails: A New English Canadian Consensus, 1976–1979

The Constitutional Debâcle and the Rise of Language Rights,1979–1983

A New Equilibrium: Official-Languages Discourse and Canadian National Identity

Federal Funding of the Official Languages in Education Program

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-248) and index.

ISBN:

9786612849930

9780773577367

077357736X

9781282849938

128284993X

9780773559967

0773559965

OCLC:

646788258