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- Title
Bilingual schooling of the Canadian Francophone minority: a cultural autonomy model.
- Authors
Landry, Rodrigue; Allard, Réal; Deveau, Kenneth
- 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.
- Subjects
CANADA; FRENCH-Canadians; BILINGUAL education; FRENCH-speaking countries; SERVICES for linguistic minorities; LANGUAGE &; culture; MULTICULTURALISM; PLURAL societies; MULTILINGUALISM; CULTURAL pluralism
- Publication
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2007, Vol 2007, Issue 185, p133
- ISSN
0165-2516
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/IJSL.2007.029