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Abstract
Based on an analysis of five English-speaking students’ written narratives on Quebec’s history, this article proposes a pedagogical tool for better integrating and vitalizing these students’ language community in Quebec. Despite tendencies of reliance and opposition emerging from their historical consciousness, these students do not employ clearly articulated and coherent English-speaking storylines for positioning themselves as a minority group. To this end, I suggest the creation of schematic narrative templates of English-speaking Quebec’s collective historical experiences for offering students workable springboards to develop personal narratives of belonging, while taking Francophone concerns of linguistic and cultural fragility into account.
Keywords:
- historical consciousness,
- schematic narrative templates,
- history teaching,
- social inclusion and community vitality,
- English-speaking Quebec
Résumé
À partir d’une analyse des récits sur l’histoire du Québec de cinq jeunes Anglo-québécois, cet article propose un outil pédagogique pour intégrer la minorité anglophone et renforcer sa vitalité au sein de la société québécoise. Malgré l’émergence de tendances qui révèlent une conscience historique, telles que la dépendance et l’opposition, ces jeunes n’utilisent pas un contre-récit articulé et cohérent pour se positionner en tant que minorité. Nous proposons la création de trames historiales schématiques des expériences collectives anglophones pour aider ces jeunes à construire leurs propres récits d’appartenance, tout en tenant compte de la fragilité linguistique et culturelle des Franco-québécois.
Mots-clés :
- conscience historique,
- trames historiales schématiques,
- enseignement de l’histoire,
- inclusion sociale et vitalité de groupe,
- Québec anglophone
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