Year: 2009
Type: paratext
Abstract: I taught the Task Force Report (also known as "Pepin- Robarts") when I was preparing a course on Canadian society as part of the summer curriculum at Algoma College in Sault Ste.Marie, Ontario.Presenting chapters from a research report on Canadian unity provided the students with some insight into one federalist version of Canada.More than this, reading the Report stimulated a great deal of heart-wrenching discussion about personal aspirations.Many of the students felt that there was a serious discrepancy between what they had been promised by the federal government and what they had actually received.One of these students was an Ojibwa woman.Two were steelworkers laid off by Algoma Steel after many years of committed service to the company.Two were homemakers.Along with three young full-time students, this group began a dialogue with me about Canada which was fuelled by our readings of the Task Force Report.I am deeply indebted to these students who inspired me to further this reading.I tend to read a text as though I were studying the weave of a fabric.I came to recognize this pattern by studying the work of Mary Ann Caws, who has written much about the texture of texts.Written textures are subject to "the inconstant and obsessive co-constructions of observers and texts, where a roughness and deformation signal the high points of interest." 1 The written can also be read as a potential cloth, with some threadlike remnants ready to be woven, which will in turn inspire the spinning of new threads as writing.A reader weaves colourful but unfashioned threads.All readings are situated in time, in space, and in particular con-Notes to the Preface are on p. 113.
Author: Loretta Czernis
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4391864916