Bilingual schooling of the Canadian Francophone minority: a cultural autonomy model
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Rodrigue Landry
Abstract
The article gives an overview of the sociopolitical context that led to the provision of educational rights to Francophone minorities outside Quebec. It also presents a conceptual framework that distinguishes between French immersion, a bilingual program intended to promote additive bilingualism for majority group members, and French schooling, an approach developed to foster additive bilingualism for minority group members. French schooling is described as a cornerstone to cultural autonomy, a process that leads to cultural survival and ethnolinguistic vitality. The concept of cultural autonomy is defined as well as each of its components: social proximity, institutional completeness, and ideological legitimacy. Finally, the article discusses the challenges of the Canadian Francophone minorities in their quest for cultural autonomy. This cultural autonomy model of minority education is seen as unique and as an approach to minority education that could be applied to other linguistic minorities.
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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
