This study focuses on Canadian literature on anti-racist education and, in
particular, the body of literature which acknowledges a sense of conflict between the
theories, goals, and strategies of anti-racism and multiculturalism. The purpose of the
study is to investigate the ways in which this body of literature addresses the Canadian
context, particularly in reference to the prevalence of multiculturalism in Canada's official
policies and popular ideology. The study reveals the existence of two different
conceptions of the conflict between anti-racist and multicultural education: irreconcilable
conflict and inevitable compromise. Each of these conceptions fails to provide practical
guidance in terms of what those visions look like or how they can be resolved. Closer
analysis reveals that this literature as a whole seems to rely on a standard critique of
multiculturalism, failing to substantiate it with illustrations from the Canadian context. In
fact, the literature fails to engage with Canadian multiculturalism with the kind of
complexity it warrants, addressing it, instead, as if it is a monolithic and static entity that
can be dismissed superficially. Addressing that complexity in the future can only
strengthen Canadian anti-racist research.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/7943 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Sivak, Alisa Marie |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
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