Making a Global City - How One Toronto School Embraced Diversity (Hardcover)

Half of Toronto's population is born outside of Canada and over 140 languages are spoken on the city's streets and in its homes. How to build community amidst such diversity is one of the global challenges that Canada - and many other western nations - has to face head on. 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. From the swift and seismic shift from a Jewish to southern European demographic in the 1950s to the gradual globalized community starting in the 1970s, Vipond eloquently and clearly highlights the challenges posed by multicultural citizenship in a city that was dominated by Anglo-Protestants. Contrary to recent well-documented anti-immigrant rhetoric in the media, Making a Global City celebrates one of the world's most multicultural cities while stressing the fact that public schools are a vital tool in integrating and accepting immigrants and children in liberal democracies.

General

Imprint:	University of Toronto Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Series:	Munk Series on Global Affairs
Release date:	March 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Robert Vipond
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-1-4426-3195-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > General
LSN:	1-4426-3195-3
Barcode:	9781442631953

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