Impact of Multiculturalism on Public Education, 50 Years Later

Olenka S. E. Bilash, Ph.D. (1989), University of Alberta, is Professor of Second Language Education at that university. She has published articles, learning resources and websites on language learning, intercultural communication and teacher education and offered professional development training on six continents.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on Contributors1 An Interview with Elder’s Helper Dale SaddlebackOlenka Bilash2 The Significance of Storytelling: Incorporating First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Literature into Children’s EducationShelby LaFramboise3 Multicultural Education in French Minority Language: Schools in Canada – The Case of OntarioDiane Gérin-Lajoie4 Inclusion, Ethnocultural and Linguistic Diversity: Is French Immersion Up to Date and Ready for a New Era?Martine Pellerin, Marianne Jacquet, Malaïka Ogandaga, Alice Prophète, Akoman Chantal Lucie Ehui and Candice Lee5 Multiculturalism in Alberta Secondary Social Studies: Attending to the Emotionality of Worldview ThreatCathryn van Kessel6 Changes in British Columbia’s Social Studies Curricula since the Announcement of Multiculturalism in 1971Catherine Broom7 Multicultural Education in Canadian Schools: A Disappearing ActNadia Prokopchuk8 Multiculturalism and Public Education: The View from Anti-RacismGeorge J. Sefa Dei9 Multiculturalism at 50: Revisiting Multiculturalism at the Crossroads of Anti-Asian Racism during Covid-19 in CanadaShibao Guo and Yan Guo10 Toward a Curricular Throughline for Japanese Canadian Content in Canadian ClassroomsOlenka Bilash11 Canada’s Un/written Rules for Cultural and Linguistic ConformityAdriana Oniță12 From Not So Humble Beginnings – The History of Alberta’s Saturday Schools’ Umbrella OrganizationsOlenka Bilash and Trudie Aberdeen13 Multicultural Orientation of Counsellors: Integration of Cultural Humility and Hope-Based Interventions to Address Diversity and Social JusticePriya S. Mani14 Responding to the Calls to Action of the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Exploring the Relationship between the Métis Nation and Ukrainians Canadians in a Constitutionally Referenced FrameworkW. Roman PetryshynIndex