Reframing Segregated Schooling: Locating Canada Within Discourses on Transnational Education

• In Event: "Reading the World": A Comparative Look at Liberation and Oppression in Education

Abstract

Despite widespread media attention surrounding racially segregated schools in the United States, little has been written about segregated school systems in Canada. This presentation examines the history of school systems in Ontario, Canada, its Black community, and its last racially segregated school, SS #11. This paper argues that the American civil rights movement had important implications for Black Canadian activists and educational policy in Canada. Black Canadians considered a transnational approach when combatting racial discrimination in Canada and they did so by using examples from south of the border and elsewhere. An examination of cross-border connections can help us not only complicate national histories (and their borders), but also consider the roots and presence of community-based approaches to educational access.

Author

• Funke Aladejebi, University of Toronto
  Presenting Author