13 research outputs found

    (RE)PRODUCING A PEACEFUL CANADIAN CITIZENRY: A LESSON ON THE FREE TRADE OF THE AMERICAS QUEBEC CITY SUMMIT PROTESTS

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    In this article, I argue that despite common assumptions that peace education efforts achieve social change, it is often a normalizing, nation‐building project that obscures hierarchies of power. Focussing on a lesson from a popular peace education program currently used in Canadian schools, I have analyzed the convergences between peace and citizenship education and consider the implications of pedagogies that encourage peace as a personal choice and responsibility. I call for an approach to peace education that promotes critical thinking on how knowledge is produced. Key words: peace education, citizenship, nation‐building, knowledge production, non‐violent protest On suppose communĂ©ment que la promotion de l’éducation pour la paix fait Ă©voluer la sociĂ©tĂ©, mais l’auteure soutient dans cet article qu’elle est plutĂŽt un projet national normatif qui camoufle des pouvoirs hiĂ©rarchiques. À l’aide d’une leçon faisant partie d’un programme d’éducation pour la paix trĂšs utilisĂ© dans les Ă©coles canadiennes, l’auteure analyse les convergences entre la paix et l’éducation Ă  la citoyennetĂ© et s’intĂ©resse aux implications des pĂ©dagogies qui encouragent la paix comme un choix et une responsabilitĂ© personnels. Elle prĂŽne une approche qui favorise la pensĂ©e critique au regard du mode de production du savoir. Mots clĂ©s : Ă©ducation pour la paix, citoyennetĂ©, dĂ©veloppement d’un pays, production du savoir, protestation non violente.

    Multicultural Education in Canadian Preservice Programs: Teacher Candidates' Perspectives

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    This report examines Canadian teacher candidates' perspectives on the multicultural education component of the preservice teacher education program they attend. The data analyze were collected through a questionnaire that set out to explore whether teacher candidates were satisfied with the multicultural education preparation they received and their ideas on how it might be improved. We present the findings in two parts. First we consider the teacher candidates' critiques and suggestions on multicultural education to reveal that the majority of respondents did not feel adequately prepared to the challenge teaching in ethno-racially diverse classrooms. Their responses point to specific programmatic and structural shortcomings of current multicultural curricula in Canadian teacher education programs. They suggest ways to improve the multicultural education curriculum including compulsory courses, more diversity among faculty and teacher candidates in the program, and an integrative approach across the teacher education curriculum. We then analyze the discourses embedded in their responses to examine how multicultural education is being understood by teacher candidates. Here we show that common understandings are often articulated through the paradigm of difference, through which the problems and the solutions are believed to be about the Other. We argue that these understandings promote rather than disrupt practices that sustain white hegemony. The article concludes with a discussion of the practical implications.Cet article porte sur les points de vue de stagiaires canadiennes sur la composante "Ă©ducation multiculturelle" de leur formation. Les donnĂ©es que nous analysons ont Ă©tĂ© recueillies par le biais d'un questionnaire cherchant Ă  connaĂźtre dans quelle mesure les stagiaires Ă©taient satisfaits de la formation qu'ils avaient reçue en Ă©ducation multiculturelle et leurs avis sur des façons de l'amĂ©liorer. La prĂ©sentation des rĂ©sultats se fait en deux parties. D'abord, nous nous penchons sur les critiques et les suggestions des stagiaires quant Ă  l'Ă©ducation multiculturelle ; celles-ci indiquent que les stagiaires ne se sentaient pas suffisamment bien prĂ©parĂ©s pour enseigner dans des contextes oĂč les Ă©lĂšves avaient diverses origines ethno-raciales. Les rĂ©ponses des stagiaires font ressortir des lacunes relatives aux programmes et aux structures portant sur la formation en multiculturalisme au sein des Ă©tudes en pĂ©dagogie au Canada. Les stagiaires proposent des façons d'amĂ©liorer la composante "Ă©ducation multiculturelle" y compris des cours obligatoires, davantage de diversitĂ© au sein du personnel enseignant et des stagiaires dans les programmes de pĂ©dagogie, et une approche intĂ©grative appliquĂ©e aux programmes d'Ă©tudes. Dans un deuxiĂšme temps, nous analysons les discours intĂ©grĂ©s dans leurs rĂ©ponses d'Ă©tudier I'interprĂ©tation que font les stagiaires de l'Ă©ducation multiculturelle. Nous rĂ©vĂ©lons que leurs connaissances communes s'articu1ent souvent en relation avec Ie paradigme de la diffĂ©rence et selon lequel les problĂšmes et les solutions sont tenus porter sur l'Autre. Nous maintenons que, plutĂŽt que d'aller Ă  I'encontre des pratiques qui soutiennent I'hĂ©gĂ©monie des Blancs, ces attitudes la promeuvent. Une discussion des implications pratiques de notre recherche vient conclure l'article

    Introduction

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    While the declared global “refugee crisis” has received considerable scholarly attention, little of it has focused on the intersecting dynamics of oppression, discrimination, violence, and subjugation. Introducing the special issue, this article defines feminist “intersectionality” as a research framework and a no-borders activist orientation in trans-national and anti-national solidarity with people displaced by war, capitalism, and reproductive heteronormativity, encountering militarized nation-state borders. Our introduction surveys work in migration studies that engages with intersectionality as an analytic and offers a synopsis of the articles in the special issue. As a whole, the special issue seeks to make an intersectional feminist intervention in research produced about (forced) migration.Alors que les universitaires se sont beaucoup intĂ©ressĂ©s Ă  la « crise des rĂ©fugiĂ©s » mondiale qui a Ă©tĂ© dĂ©clarĂ©e, ils n’ont que peu envisagĂ© les dynamiques croisĂ©es de l’oppression, la discrimination, la violence et la subjugation. Le texte introductif de ce numĂ©ro spĂ©cial dĂ© nit « l’intersectionnalitĂ© » fĂ©ministe transnationale comme cadre de recherche et comme un activisme orientĂ© sans frontiĂšres solidaire des personnes dĂ©placĂ©es par la guerre, le capitalisme et l’hĂ©tĂ©ronormativitĂ© de la reproduction, qui se heurtent Ă  des frontiĂšres nation- ales et Ă©tatiques militarisĂ©es. Cette introduction examine les Ă©tudes sur la migration qui retiennent l’intersectionnalitĂ© comme perspective d’analyse et offre un sommaire des articles de ce numĂ©ro spĂ©cial qui, envisagĂ© dans son ensemble, vise Ă  dĂ©gager une intervention fĂ©ministe intersectionnelle dans les travaux de recherche qui concernent la migration (forcĂ©e).&nbsp

    Justice globale et positionnement du sujet racialisé chez les militants chrétiens du Nord

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    Au cours des derniĂšres annĂ©es, le mouvement altermondialiste et les Forums sociaux mondiaux (FSM) ont fait l’objet de critiques sĂ©rieuses. En effet, dĂšs le deuxiĂšme FSM en 2002, certains commençaient Ă  se demander si ces rencontres ne se prĂȘtaient pas Ă  la « colonisation de la rĂ©sistance » (Mngxitama 2005). D’autres ont remarquĂ© et commentĂ© la prĂ©dominance des groupes du Nord aux diffĂ©rents forums. Mon objectif est d’étudier le positionnement racialisĂ© des groupes confessionnels et de leurs membres habitant les pays du Nord. La mĂ©thode utilisĂ©e pour comprendre le processus de racialisation est en grande partie influencĂ©e par les mĂ©thodologies fĂ©ministe, postcoloniale et antiraciste ; celles-ci cherchent Ă  rĂ©vĂ©ler les façons dont la connaissance est produite pour Ă©tablir et maintenir des relations inĂ©gales, ainsi que pour construire des subjectivitĂ©s au moyen de reprĂ©sentations et de modes de pensĂ©e racialisĂ©s. L’une des questions pratiques que mon analyse soulĂšve est la suivante : les activistes des pays du Nord devraient-ils mĂȘme participer aux mouvements mis en cause ici ? De plus, Ă©tant donnĂ© les inquiĂ©tudes croissantes exprimĂ©es par le mouvement altermondialiste et les gens qui participent aux FSM, j’ai tenu Ă  soulever des questions qui nĂ©cessitent un examen beaucoup plus poussé ; j’ai aussi voulu faire ressortir le besoin de recherches universitaires plus soutenues et d’études approfondies sur les liens existant entre l’Église, la thĂ©ologie et le mouvement altermondialiste.The altermondialism movement has been hailed by many as promising, and is explicitly based upon the idea of coming together across geographic borders and differences to organize collectively for global justice. In recent years, however, the altermondialsm movement and the World Social Forums (WSFs) have come under some serious criticism and as early as the second WSF in 2002, some were beginning to question if these gatherings were in fact lending themselves to the “the colonization of resistance” (Mngxitama 2005). Others have noticed and commented on the dominance of groups from the global North at these events. The objective of this article is to consider the racialized positioning of Church groups and members from the global North. The approach that I use to understand the processes of racialization is largely shaped by feminist, postcolonial and/or antiracist methodologies, which seek to expose the ways knowledge is produced to create and sustain unequal relations and to constitute subjectivities through racialized representations and modes of thinking. One of the practical questions that this study raises is whether activists from the Global North should be participating in such movements at all. In raising such questions, the article encourages careful contemplation of North/South power relations in global justice movements power and suggest a need for more sustained research and scholarship into the links between, Church, theology, and the altermondialism movement

    “Refugee” as Metaphor in TripAdvisor Reviews

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    Critical Feminist Approaches to Migration and Mobility Justice in Canada: Guest Editors' Introduction

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    This themed section examines how inequality constrain and enable contemporary human movement at state border crossings. It responds directly to questions, practices, and knowledge gaps that arise from critical migration/refugee studies, critical tourism studies, border studies, and/or mobility justice research by denaturalizing assumptions about the rights of some to choose to move across borders freely and others who are forced to leave, denied access, or detained. In so doing, we highlight research on human mobilities and borders in Canada to advance understandings on the dynamics of territorial control and access to state borders. What links the articles is the commitment to examining the reproduction of power through the following three shared understandings and starting points: (1) a critique of the Canadian nation state’s global reputation as exceptionally humanitarian (Nguyen and Phu 2021); (2) a consideration of the global entanglements of racial capitalism and colonialism that structures human movement (GutiĂ©rrez RodrĂ­guez 2018); and (3) an understanding that the mobilities of some and the immobilities of others coexist and are in fact co-produced (Ahmed et al. 2020; Bauman 1998; Sheller 2018)
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