MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION IN CANADA AND THE CASE OF THE PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN COMMUNITIES
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Abstract: This article has been produced on the results of an academic research developed from December 2013 to December 2014 among the Portuguese and the Brazilian communities living in Calgary, Canada. As Associate Professor (visiting scholar, as well as post-doc fellow) in the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, under a scholarship received from the Government of Brazil, Ministry of Education â?? CAPES, it has been possible to develop a theoretical study on culture, multiculturalism and diversity so to discuss the importance of a Portuguese school striving to resist a full assimilation by the Anglophonic world around it. The empirical investigation has been made by an ethnological approach, through a participant observational research and the application of written questionnaires distributed to randomly assorted members of the Portuguese and the Brazilian communities living in Calgary, in a total of 64 interviews conducted (20 Brazilian and 44 Portuguese). This study has been approved by the University of Calgaryâ??s Conjoint Faculties Research Ethics Board in August 20, 2014. Ethics ID: REB14-1237. Keywords: multiculturalism, education and diversity, Portuguese and Brazilian studies.Downloads
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15.10.2015
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PAIVA, W. A. de; FRIESEN, J. W. MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION IN CANADA AND THE CASE OF THE PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN COMMUNITIES. Revista Educativa - Revista de Educação, Goiânia, Brasil, v. 18, n. 1, p. 209–240, 2015. DOI: 10.18224/educ.v18i1.4268. Disponível em: https://seer.pucgoias.edu.br/index.php/educativa/article/view/4268. Acesso em: 18 abr. 2024.
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