Cultural Diversity and Canadian Education : Issues and Innovations.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Cultural Diversity and Canadian Education -- PART ONE: IMAGES OF CANADIAN SOCIETY -- Reluctant Hosts: Anglo-Canadian Views of Multiculturalism in the Twentieth Century -- The Ambiguities of a Bilingual and Multicultural Canada -- The Franco-Canadians of Western Canada and Multiculturalism -- Dilemmas and Contradictions of a Multi-ethnic Society -- PART TWO: EDUCATION AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY -- The Official Languages and Education -- Education: The Cultural Contribution of the Other Ethnic Groups -- Indian Control of Indian Education -- Education for Immigrants -- PART THREE: LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND SCHOOLING -- Principles for a Language Policy -- Language in Native Education -- The Non-Official Languages Study -- Culture and Language as Factors in Learning and Education -- PART FOUR: CURRICULUM AND TEXTBOOKS -- Whose Culture? Whose Heritage? Ethnicity Within Canadian Social Studies Curricula -- The Social Role of School Textbooks in Canada -- Curriculum Development -- The Rationale for Canadian Studies -- PART FIVE: COMMUNITY, SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS -- Multicultural Programs in Toronto Schools -- Evaluation of the Second Year of Bilingual (English-Ukrainian) Program -- Native Teacher Education in a Community Setting: The Mt. Currie Program -- Teacher Education for a Multicultural Society -- PART SIX: ISSUES AND INNOVATIONS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE -- Education in Multicultural Society: What Sort of Education? What Sort of Society? -- French Immersion in Canada: Achievements and Directions -- The Vertical Mosaic in Flux: Ethnicity and Education in Urban Canada, 1951-1971 -- Heritage Languages and Canadian School Programs -- APPENDIX -- The Official Languages Act (1969) -- Multiculturalism within a Bilingual Framework Policy (1971) -- Bill 101, Charter of the French Language (1977).

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