Conceptual Definitions. Multiculturalism in Canada and the USA

Authors

  • Daniela Ciubotariu “Miron Costin” High School, Iași Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.69475/

Keywords:

multiculturalism, biculturalism, interculturalism, transculturalism, history of Canada, history of the USA

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to focus on the concept of multiculturalism (definitions, origins, official documents) in the two countries where it came into being, and on its derivatives: biculturalism, interculturalism and transculturalism. The concepts can be introduced into the English lessons to make our students aware of these phenomena that have been taking place especially in some English-speaking countries and originated in the North American continent. The subject is suitable for high-school level and could be integrated into the optional or CLIL classes.

Author Biography

  • Daniela Ciubotariu, “Miron Costin” High School, Iași

    Daniela Ciubotariu has been a teacher of English for 21 years and graduated the “Al.I.Cuza” University of Iași. She holds an MA degree in American Cultural Studies issued by the same university. She was the beneficiary of a Socrates-Erasmus scholarship and attended the courses of Konstanz University, Germany where she mostly studied Canadian culture and literature. As a consequence, her dissertation paper focused on Multiculturalism in Canada and the USA and was published in 2010 by StudIS Publishing House, Iasi. She also translated John Loughlin’s work Subnational Government. The French Experience (Regiunile si guvernul subnațional. Experiența franceză) published by Institutul European Iași (2009).

     

References

Concise Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, eleventh edition, 2004;

Fleras, Augie, Jean L. Elliot, Multiculturalism in Canada. The Challenge of Diversity, Nelson Canada, Ontario, 1992;

Gagnon, Alain-G., Problems and Limits of Multiculturalism: A View from Quebec, in Multiculturalism in Contemporary Societies: Perspectives on Difference and Transdifference, edited by H. Breining, J. Gebhardt, K. Lösch, Universitätbund Erlagen, Nürnberg, 2002;

Heller, Agnes, The Many Faces of Multiculturalism, in The Challenge of Diversity. Integration and Pluralism in Societies of Immigration, by R. Banböck, A. Heller, A. R. Zolberg, Vienna. 1996;

Keefer, Janice Kulyk, Writing, Reading, Teaching Transcultural in Canada, in Multiculturalism in North America and Europe, edited by Hans Braun and Wolfgang Klooss, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1995;

Labelle, Huguette, Multiculturalism and Government, in Multiculturalism and Intergroup Relations, edited by James S. Frideres, Greenwood Press, Connecticut, 1989;

Stratton, Jon, Ien Ang, Multicultural Imagined Communities, in Multicultural States: Rethinking Difference and Identity, edited by David Bennet, London, 1988.

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Published

09-07-2024

Issue

Vol. 26 No. 1 (2021): Summer 2021

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Conceptual Definitions. Multiculturalism in Canada and the USA. (2024). RATE Issues, 26(1). https://doi.org/10.69475/