Twenty-four French-speaking students in a northeast Ontario (Canada) elementary school were administered an intelligence test in grades three, five, and eight. Significant differences among the three testings raise concerns about the practice of intelligence testing among cultural minority populations. Such tests should not be administered to all…

Persistent low levels of school literacy among Canadian Natives is discussed in terms of language, script, culture, and pedagogy. Low literacy level is only a problem when defined by the narrow Western conception of literacy. When writing is taken as a graphic means of preserving and communicating information, then native cultures have always been…

Reports on a series of recent research projects concerning the principles of additive and subtractive bilingualism in Canadian schools and the probability of minorities and majorities successfully learning a second language based on their overall mastery in their first language. (60 references) (GLR)

Examines the relationship between education and marginalized social groups with respect to the labor market. Argues that problems in these markets are structural, so they will not disappear in the current period of economic recovery. Discusses the contribution education can make toward solving these problems, as well as its limits. (DSK)

Explored students' perspectives of a university path program situated within a university-school partnership for immigrant and minority students. Responses show that the abstraction of the program lived in concrete, personal dimensions for students moving from high school to college in the same neighborhood. Distinctions were blurred between the…

In this article, Manju Varma-Joshi, Cynthia Baker, and Connie Tanaka examine the impact of racialized name-calling on a group of twenty-six "visible minority" youth from New Brunswick, Canada. Through one-on-one interviews and focus groups, the authors compare views held by visible minority students and their parents to the views of…

The narrative of the Canadian prairie context is invested in intercultural relations that privilege whiteness and marginalize Aboriginal people and other racial minorities. We maintain that anti-oppressive curriculum on the Canadian prairies must examine how racial identifications are constructed through commonplace national discourses. A…

A survey and focus group study with students of Chinese origin at York University in Ontario (Canada) examined their attitudes toward the concept of "visible minority." Surveys of students conducted in 1992-94, as well as three focus group sessions conducted with 26 students of Chinese origin, have indicated that large numbers of…

This graphic overview uses 28 bar and pie graphs to illustrate Canada's ethnic and linguistic diversity. Information was drawn primarily from 1986 census figures. The following categories are examined: (1) ethnic origin; (2) language; (3) visible minorities (nonwhites); (4) aboriginal peoples; and (5) immigration. Information is reported for the…

A questionnaire survey of 119 U.S. and Canadian institutions with approved or recommended programs in educational administration examined which possible program elements are being utilized and which are not, how programs seek preservice and inservice clients, and how women and minority groups are involved in the programs. The survey sample…

This report addresses the question of whether Canada is really a bilingual, multicultural nation, or a bilingual, monocultural nation, or a bilingual, bicultural nation. The history of Quebec is outlined and a comparison is made between the ethnic and linguistic composition of Quebec and the rest of Canada, showing that the percentage of people of…

The Franco-Ontarian curriculum was greatly strengthened in Ontario's elementary and secondary schools in the 1960s. However, these gains are now threatened by declining enrollment, assimilation in the home, economic pressures, population displacement, lack of accessible French institutions of higher education, and exogamy. Responses to a…

The conference theme, "We Listen, They Speak," describes the proceedings of the conference at which Native Indians, Eskimos, and Metis were speakers, and the Whiteman listened. The speeches cover such areas as integration, cultural conflict, residential schools, cultural discrimination, social problems, educational needs, curriculum…

Discusses Canada's problems in searching for a national identity and the controversy of the Federal policy of multiculturalism. Presents its objectives within a bilingual framework and the contradictions involved. Suggests a workable model involving assimilation conditioned by regional or local circumstances, useful also as a development strategy.…

Three Ontario (Canada) court cases involve challenges to educational regulations or policies resting on traditional assumptions about the religious nature and purpose of schooling. How these cases and two others help clarify the meaning of multiculturalism and whether the Ontario courts hold a particular theory of ethnic relations are discussed.…