Bilingual School Teachers' Cultural Mission and Practices in Alberta Before 1940

Auteurs-es

  • Yvette T. M. Mahé Faculte Saint-Jean University of Alberta

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.11575/jet.v34i2.52646

Résumé

This socio-historical paper explores how bilingual school teachers in the past responded to competing Francophone and Anglophone ideological cultural reproduction discourses in their curriculum practices. An in depth study of the cultural curriculum of 265 teachers who taught in public schools in French-speaking communities in Alberta during the period 1934 to 1939 sheds some light on how the exercise of power can influence teachers ' decisions to either give legitimacy or resist reproducing in their classrooms certain forms of know ledge and cultural orientations .

Biographie de l'auteur-e

Yvette T. M. Mahé, Faculte Saint-Jean University of Alberta

Yvette T.M. Mahe’ is an Associate Professor of Education at the Faculte Saint-Jean, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. She is responsible for teaching Social Studies curriculum courses, the History of Education, and research methods at the graduate level. Her research interests include the history of Francophone education and the processes of cultural transmission.

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2018-05-17

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