Ethics in the City: Robert Vipond

Ethics in the City

What Does It Take To Be “Truly One of Us”? Lessons from the History of a Toronto Public School

In 2017, the Pew Research Organization released a study of citizen attitudes to immigration and integration across thirteen countries, Canada among them. This paper attempts to understand the Canadian take on what it means “to be truly one of us.” To understand the Pew findings, I suggest that it may be helpful to take a longer view of debates over citizenship in Canada. One such example is furnished by the history of a gateway public school in Toronto, the Clinton Street Public School. Using Clinton Street School as a microcosm, I try to make sense of the Pew study by linking it to broader arguments about ideas of citizenship, especially those I develop in Making a Global City: How One Toronto School Embraced Diversity (UTP, 2017).

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Robert Vipond
University of Toronto
Political Science

Wed, Mar 6, 2019
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Rm 200, Larkin Building