Crosswords: Language, Education and Ethnicity in French Ontario (Trends in Linguistics)

Chapter 1: Difference and dominance: Language, ethnicity and education
1.0. Introduction: Language, ethnicity and power in Canada
1.1. Franco-Ontarian education and problems of difference and dominance
1.2. Minority language education
1.3. Outline of the book
1.4. Sources of data
Chapter 2: The French in Canada: A historical overview
2.0. French ethnicity: Stratification, assimilation and mobilization
2.1. Colonization and la Nouvelle France (1534–1763)
2.2. Conquest to Confederation (1763–1867)
2.3. Internal migration (1867–1960)
2.4. Ethnic stratification and patterns of bilingualism
2.5. The ethnic mobilization of the 1960s
2.6. The French-language minority in Ontario
2.7. Franco-Ontarians in the 1990s
Chapter 3: Language in the ideology and politics of ethnic mobilization
3.0. The contested terrain of language
3.1. French and English as linguistic capital
3.2. French and English as ethnic emblems
3.3. Consequences of mobilization: Blurred boundaries and new hierarchies
Chapter 4: The school system as border patrol
4.0. The school as ethnic institution
4.1. La gestion: Who sets the rules of the game?
4.2. Les non parlants and le multiculturalisme: Who is allowed to play?
4.3. Power and subordination: The limits of current strategies
Chapter 5: Brokers and boundaries: French-language minority schools in Toronto
5.0. The Franco-Ontarian population and the French-language schools of Toronto
5.1. The schools: Ideology and practice of French-language education
5.2. The parents: Competing interests in the struggle for bilingualism
5.3. The students: Language choice and social boundaries
5.4. Brokers and boundaries
Chapter 6: Projet “Coopération et découverte”
6.0. From ethnography to action-research
6.1. The development of a teaching approach
6.2. Projet “Cooperation et decouverte” in the classroom
6.3. The limits of pedagogical interventions
Chapter 7: Franco-Ontarian education and the possibilities for pluralism
7.0. Power, boundaries and the distribution of resources
7.1. Language practices and the contradictions of Franco-Ontarian education
7.2. Conclusion
Notes
References
List of Abbreviations
Subject Index
Author Index