- Title
The Muslim Community and Education in Quebec: Controversies and Mutual Adaptation
(La Communauté musulmane et l’éducation au Québec:Controverses et adaptation mutuelle) - DATE & TIME
Monday, Oct 5 2015, 6:15―7:45pm - Venue
Multipurpose Lecture Room(104), Okuma Memorial Tower(Bldg.#26), Waseda Campus - Speaker
Prof. Marie Mc Andrew (Department of Educational Administration and Foundations, University of Montreal) - Language
French(consecutive interpretation) + Power Point
Overview
While Quebec province is known for predominant French-speaking population and is the only province which has French as the provincial official language, it is more ethnically diverse area because of the active immigration policy and the integration policy.
Prof. Marie Mc Andrew is a well-known specialist of education of minorities and intercultural education. She talked on how Quebec province has integrated Muslim students in school education, by mainly introducing Bouchard-Taylor report, which investigated the controversies on “Reasonable Accommodation,” the policy for multicultural society Quebec province has adopted.
One of the comments from the students who attended the seminar shows that the actual condition of Muslims in Quebec has been relatively unknown and the lecture played a meaningful role for them; “I had not been so much interested in this seminar because the theme was less familiar with me, but after this seminar I realized that this topic is relevant also for Japan, which could learn the compromising diversity management style from Quebec.”
