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Kunnas, Marika – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2023
Elitism has been an issue in Canadian French immersion since its inception. This study examines how two racially diverse Ontarian school boards and Ontario French immersion policy, curricula, and other related documents construct and support an elite student within the immersion program. The elite student who emerged from immersion documents is a…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Inclusion, Second Language Learning, Native Language
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Barrett DeWiele, Corinne E.; Edgerton, Jason D. – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2016
In this paper, we revisit Brown's ("Br J Soc Educ" 14: 65-85, 1990) concept of "parentocracy" which has been informatively applied in educational research in a number of studies in various countries internationally--but almost none in North America. We provide an expanded conceptualization of parentocracy and suggest that it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, Middle Class, Advantaged
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Heiman, Daniel; Murakami, Elizabeth – Journal of School Leadership, 2019
This critical ethnographic study investigated how gentrification processes shaped an elementary school's community and two-way bilingual education (TWBE) program in Central Texas. Findings revealed how these gentrification processes impacted the principal and vice principal at the ontological and epistemological levels, as their ways of being and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Bilingual Education, Immersion Programs, Social Class