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- Title
TEACHING QUÉBEC: WHY QUÉBEC'S HISTORY MATTERS TO ENGLISH CANADA.
- Authors
GORDON, ALAN
- Abstract
In an era when university administrators are increasingly eyeing "efficiencies" (one crude measure of which might be class size), offering a course where interest has been slight in recent years can be dangerous. A cursory glance through the course calendars of Canada's universities points to a sharp decline over the past few decades of opportunities to study Québec's fascinating history. I will suggest three strategies that might reinvigorate the teaching of Québec and French Canada to students at English language universities. The first of these involves internationalizing the content of the course so that Québec – and indeed Canada – are seen as part of global historical themes. A second strategy is to consider Québec and French Canada as a foil for the examination of North American history. Incorporating such an approach into the teaching of Canadian identity might illuminate the similarities and differences in how the American context has affected Canada's and Québec's histories. Finally, to take into account the “fact" of the Canadian constitution, the construction of political and legal institutions, and interactions with Anglophone Canadians, which have all influenced developments in francophone Québec since Confederation, and indeed before.
- Subjects
CANADA; CANADIAN history; ENGLISH-speaking Canadians; CURRICULUM; CANADA-United States relations; CANADA-Quebec (Province) relations; FRENCH-Canadians; CANADIAN history, 1867-; HISTORY; EDUCATION
- Publication
Canadian Issues / Thèmes Canadiens, 2013, p47
- ISSN
0318-8442
- Publication type
Article