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HARP-408 |
Title: |
Lies We Live By: National Identity and Social Justice |
Source: |
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 1994, 110, 145-154 |
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Year: |
1994 |
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0 |
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Keywords: |
anti-discrimination, Canada, economic, social, and cultural rights, human rights, language, multi-culturalism, non-discrimination, civil and political rights, educational rights, indigenous people, media, education, minority rights, self-determination |
Abstract: |
Issues of aboriginal rights, multiculturalism, & bilingual education are addressed, in a comment on John Edwards’s “Ethnolinguistic Pluralism and Its Discontents: A Canadian Study, and Some General Observations” (see abstract in this section of SA 43:2). Also discussed are the educational policies for native peoples in residential schools & the interaction between dominant & subordinate groups. Identity negotiation between educators & minority students is illustrated by an excerpt from the Canadian media. It is demonstrated that multicultural policies are primarily politically motivated, & that existing structures limit minority student development. Edwards’s failure to provide empirical evidence of the positive influence of the long-term promotion of minority students’ first language is criticized. |
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Keywords: anti-discrimination, Canada, civil and political rights, cultural rights, economic, education, educational rights, human rights, indigenous people, language, media, minority rights, multi-culturalism, non-discrimination, self-determination, social