Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • 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 (1534â€?1763)
  • 2.2. Conquest to Confederation (1763â€?1867)2.3. Internal migration (1867â€?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 patrol4.0. 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 bilingualism5.3. The students: Language choice and social boundaries
  • 5.4. Brokers and boundaries
  • Chapter 6: Projet “Coopération et découverteâ€?
  • 6.0. From ethnography to action-research
  • 6.1. The development of a teaching approach
  • 6.2. Projet “Cooperation et decouverteâ€? 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 education7.2. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Subject Index
  • Author Index