EDEC 247 Lecture 17: Policy Issues 17

• School: McGill University
• Department: Curriculum and Instruction
• Course: EDEC 247
• Professor: Tino Bordonaro

Document Summary

Language legislation: from bill 63 to bill 22: emergence of a new value system, pre-1960s and post 1960s, the context, religion: public schools are divided along religious lines, the law: it reinforced the religious system. All of the attention in schools was placed on religion: economics: english was the language of opportunity. This raised a number of concerns in the 1960s: political: the policies changed dramatically in the 1960s. There was a strong church and weak state. The politics shifted because the decade began with a strong church and ended with a strong state. The church had the power of persuasion to promote a certain way of life. The state had the power of passing policy, and policy replaced persuasion: culture: they believed that the french way of life could only be protected by language after religion began to take a back burner.