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Answering my sister's question: The critical importance of education for diversity in those spaces where we think we are all the same
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-18, 10:09 authored by Michael CorbettThis essay is a response to a question about school desegregation in Nova Scotia, Canada posed by my sister in 2008. I argue that the question itself illustrates the extent to which critical analysis of the politics of race in Canadian schools, particularly in rural areas, is seldom taken up. This feeds into a persistent mythology of a racially integrated, benevolent Nova Scotia where nasty problems of race were taken care of in the historic past. The reality in many rural regions of Canada is, I argue, quite the opposite and it may be precisely the friendly, homespun imagery which support the persistence of exclusive educational and social practices, as well as persistent regional economic disadvantage. It is in these apparently non-diverse places that diversity education is perhaps most desperately needed
History
Publication title
Journal of inquiry & action in educationPagination
1-17ISSN
2159-1474Department/School
Faculty of EducationPublisher
Buffalo State CollegePlace of publication
United StatesRights statement
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