A case study analysis of the ESL issue
Year:
1997
Author :
Publishing Company:
, Université de Calgary
Abstract
This thesis illustrates the complex nature of English as a Second Language (ESL) provision as increasing numbers of children and youth whose first language is neither English nor French enter our public schools. The ESL issue is revealed through the actions of a community-based group, the Coalition for Equal Access to Education, in opposition to severe and disproportionate cutbacks made by the Calgary Board of Education (CBE) to ESL budgets beginning in 1992. The Coalition's advocacy work on behalf of ESL students and their parents and the right of students to appropriate language instruction programs in order to acquire one of Canada's official languages is documented through a community and social justice analysis of an educational issue. The education system serves to reinforce dominant-minority group relations in society by denying ESL programs to students who have weak English language skills and the impact is systemic or institutional discrimination.
Theme :
Alberta
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