How a country gets forged in the classroom

January 5, 2017

In a recent Toronto Star article, Political Scientist Robert Vipond describes his latest book Making A Global City: How One Toronto School Embraced Diversity as a “biography of a school”. Clinton Street Junior Public School is coined an ‘incubator of citizenship’ and it’s history is traced from the first half of the last century beginning with “Jewish Clinton,” followed by the eras of Italian Clinton and Global Clinton, alongside Canada’s evolving “multiculturalism” as well as changing government laws and bureaucracies. According to Vipond, the effort to construct “multicultural citizenship” was “all part of the daily routine” at the school with the challenge “to pay respect to the country’s … legacy” while adapting it to “the needs and aspirations” of newcomers. The full article is available here.

An earlier related article is available here.