Multicultural Literacy In Canada

In the last year of high school, students of Ontario should only be educated on Canadian literature within English courses. Even though other writers from all cultures provide excellent teaching tools to assist with the provinces educational curriculum, the focus should be related to Canadian literature and it’s writers. As a matter of fact, the direr need for students to become accustomed with the literacy of Canada is greatly important. In all honesty, three reasons are; requiring to concentrate upon Canadian Literacy/culture besides neighbouring cultures, the desire of promoting and constructing new current writers in Canada, while also motivating multicultural literacy to help reflect on Canada’s society. Therefore in order to be certain that Ontario students are able to comprehend Canada’s modern culture, the country’s literacy is needed in thigh school classrooms. …show more content…
For indeed it is a tradition for Canada to be a ‘branch plant’ of other countries. Starting back when English and French settlers migrated to Canada, the country’s culture never had the proper chance to develop having always been under the thumb of a much more powerful nonnative culture. Hence for a long time Ontario students were expected to study Shakespeare and various other British writers. In the same way today, they are also educated on American authors like Fitzgerald and their written works. However many schools limit a students exposure to Canadian novels to ISP reading lists. In this sense, Canada is an attic in which we have stored American and British literature without considering our own. 1 There is no wonder a Canadian student has problems appreciating their