Identity and education
The objective of this text is to propose a critical analysis of the pedagogical guide En préparation pour le prochain CMA (In preparation for the next Acadian World Congress) in its socio-political and discursive context. This guide aims to provide so-called identity education to a school children in a minority environment where different definitions of identity, some of which considered incompatible, are being reconstructed. Hence, this makes for charged subject matter, as does the fact that the guide is produced within the framework of an event, the Acadian World Congress (AWC), which has been the subject of strong opposition and sharp criticism from one edition to the next. This raises the following two questions: “What is an Acadian?” and “Who has the right to define that?” From that perspective, is En préparation pour le prochain CMA merely the umpteenth manifestation of competing discourses? Or might the guide, despite its pitfalls, be quite pertinent? It is the latter reading that I will defend in this contribution.