Author : Michael D. Behiels
Release : 2004
Genre : Education
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Canada's Francophone Minority Communities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Canada's Francophone Minority Communities write by Michael D. Behiels. This book was released on 2004. Canada's Francophone Minority Communities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By the late 1950s francophone and Acadian minority communities outside Quebec were in rapid decline. Demographic, economic, socio-cultural, institutional, and political factors that had sustained both the concept and the reality of French Canada for well over a century were being eliminated or transformed. Canada's Francophone Minority Communities shows how French-speaking minorities won the right to full and unfettered school governance with the backing of the Charter, the Supreme Court, and the Canadian government.Convinced that education was one of the essential keys to the renewal and growth of their communities, francophone organizations and leaders lobbied for constitutional entrenchment of official bilingualism and a mandated Charter right to education in their own language, including the right to governance over their own schools and school boards - a significant Canadian innovation. From those efforts a new, vigorous francophone pan-Canadian national community emerged, one capable of ensuring the survival of its constituents communities well into the twenty-first century.