Anglo-Quebec today: looking at community and schooling issues
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Patricia Lamarre
Abstract
In the 1960s, the Anglophone community in Quebec tended to see itself as a “majority” group, despite their demographic weight within the province. Efforts to change the status of French and French speakers provoked a redefinition of the status of Anglophones and an important transformation of the community and of its institutions — transformations that are still ongoing. In this article, we take a look at the Anglo-Quebec community today, a community that is increasingly bilingual, multicultural, and hybrid, a community which is also in decline. We then discuss how this reflects on the challenges and issues facing the English school system — a school system mandated with ensuring the vitality of the official language minority, but also with the preparation of students for life in an increasingly French Quebec.
© Walter de Gruyter
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Articles in the same Issue
- Official language minorities in Canada: an introduction
- The English-speaking minority of Quebec: a historical perspective
- From “Nouvelle-France” to “Francophonie canadienne”: a historical survey
- Legal environment of official languages in Canada
- Follow the leaders: reconciling identity and governance in Quebec's Anglophone population
- Language politics and horizontal governance
- Anglo-Quebec today: looking at community and schooling issues
- Bilingual schooling of the Canadian Francophone minority: a cultural autonomy model
- The Canadian state and the empowerment of the Francophone minority communities regarding their economic development
- Language planning and French-English bilingual communication: Montreal field studies from 1977 to 1997
- A macroscopic intergroup approach to the study of ethnolinguistic development
- Ethnolinguistic minorities and national integration in Canada
- Book reviews
