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

Authors

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

DOI:

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

Abstract

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 .

Author Biography

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.

Downloads

Published

2018-05-17

Issue

Vol. 34 No. 2 (2000)

Section

Articles

License

The Journal of Educational Thought retains first publication rights for all articles. The Journal grants reproduction rights for noncommercial educational purposes with the provision that full acknowledgement of the work’s source be noted on each copy. The Journal will redirect to the appropriate authors any inquiries for further commercial publication of individual articles. All authors wishing to publish in JET will be asked to fill in and sign a Consent to Publish and Transfer of Copyright agreement.

Authors must affirm that any submission to JET has not been and will not be published or submitted elsewhere while under considration by JET.