Making a Global City: How One Toronto School Embraced Diversity

✍ Scribed by Robert Vipond

Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 279
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Making a Global City critically examines the themes of diversity and community in a single primary school, the Clinton Street Public School in Toronto, between 1920 and 1990.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Jewish Clinton, 1920–1952: “Well to the Fore among Toronto Schools”
3. At Clinton You’re a Somebody: Religion and the Idea of Citizenship
4. European Clinton, 1950–1965: “Ruth beside the Alien Corn”
5. European Clinton, 1965–1975: From Mungie Cakes to Multiculturalism
6. Global Clinton, 1975–1990: “We Have Children from Lots of Countries”
7. Global Clinton and Heritage Languages
8. Conclusion: Remembering the Answers
Notes
Index

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