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The Schooling of Marginalized Students in Urban Canada: Programs, Curricula, and Pedagogies

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Employing a critical education framework, Carl James discusses the theories, programs, and practices of Canadian educators in their attempts to be responsive to the needs, interests, and aspirations of their culturally diverse student population. He traces the movement from multiculturalism to antiracism to culturally responsive and relevant pedagogical approaches to education, noting the challenges, limitations, opportunities, and possibilities that mediate attempts to provide inclusive and equitable schooling to students residing in urban and “suburban” contexts. Readers are introduced to the “community-referenced” approach to education (CRAE) which is based on equitable, democratic, and inclusive practices to enhance school effectiveness, student participation, and parental and community engagement. James describes how this approach to schooling might better facilitate and provide a more effective culturally relevant and responsive teaching/learning.

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Acknowledgments

I am indebted to Julia Samaroo and Krysta Pandolfi who provided very valuable research and editing assistance in the various editions of this chapter. Also, my appreciation goes to Carol Reid and Jae Major for inviting me into this project, and who with the reviewer provided very helpful comments and suggestions on the early version of the chapter.

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James, C.E. (2017). The Schooling of Marginalized Students in Urban Canada: Programs, Curricula, and Pedagogies. In: Reid, C., Major, J. (eds) Global Teaching. Education Dialogues with/in the Global South. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52526-0_3

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