"La Survivance" Discourses and the Curriculum in French-Speaking Communities in North America, 1840-1960
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11575/jet.v38i2.52648Abstract
A comparative study of the cultural resistance
curriculum artfully integrated in the English Program of Studies by
patriotic teachers who taught in Franco-American and Canadian
bilingual schools before 1960 disclosed that the French curriculum
was based on the Quebec Program of Studies. As a result, la
survivance discourses concealed in the French textbooks were
founded on a defensive form of nationalism which blended language
and faith. This paper provides examples illustrating the kinds of
la survivance discourses selected by textbook writers to incite young
Francophones to continue their ancestors' battles to protect and
defend their linguistic, religious, and educational rights. For
instance, discourses referring to French Canadians as victims of
English Protestant fanatics, as champions of Christian democratic
liberties, and as progressive people.
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