Microliteracy and the Discourse of Canadian Multiculturalism (Essay) Microliteracy and the Discourse of Canadian Multiculturalism (Essay)

Microliteracy and the Discourse of Canadian Multiculturalism (Essay‪)‬

Ethnologies 2004, Spring, 26, 1

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Cet article souligne la proliferation chaotique des microlitteraties multiculturelles au cours des decennies depuis que le gouvernement canadien a, le premier, porte le concept du multiculturalisme sur la scene nationale depuis le milieu des annees 1960. Les auteurs definissent la litteratie multiculturelle en termes d'orientations definies et soutenues vis-a-vis du discours multiculturel --orientations qui se manifestent par le biais de pratiques textuelles et sociales recurrentes. Durant les annees precedent 1988 et la promulgation officielle du multiculturalisme au Canada, le discours s'est prete a des ajouts naifs et tres optimistes au cours d'une phase de developpement de la litteratie que cet essai decrit comme une protolitteratie. Les efforts subsequents faits par le gouvernement canadien pour reduire ce discours au silence, alors meme qu'il integrait le multiculturalisme a sa politique officielle, ont fraye le chemin dans ce pays a une multiplication des litteraties multiculturelles, une post-litteratie qui a, durant ce processus, severement fragmente et mine le discours. This article outlines the chaotic proliferation of multicultural microliteracies over the decades since the Canadian government first brought the concept of multiculturalism to the national stage in the mid-1960s. The authors define multicultural literacy in terms of patterned and sustained orientations to multiculturalism discourse--orientations that manifest themselves by way of recurrent social and textual practices. In the years prior to 1988 and the official enactment of multiculturalism in Canada, the discourse lent itself to naive and largely optimistic renderings in a phase of literacy development described in the essay as protoliteracy. Subsequent efforts by the Canadian government to mute the discourse, even as it made multiculturalism into official policy, cleared the way for a post-literate multiplication of multicultural literacies in this country, which severely fragmented and undermined the discourse in the process.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2004
22 March
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
38
Pages
PUBLISHER
Ethnologies
PROVIDER INFO
The Gale Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an affiliate of Cengage Learning, Inc.
SIZE
220.6
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