Lunch & Learn: Daniel Weinstock - The Political Ethics of Bilingual Education

In this Lunch & Learn, Daniel Weinstock presents his research on the political ethics of bilingual education.
Given the benefits of speaking multiple languages, Weinstock says that many arguments against bilingual education lack ethical justification. However, in situations where vulnerable languages compete with more globally dominant ones, privileging the vulnerable language may be warranted.
This perspective is applied to Quebec, where Weinstock argues that some limits on bilingual education may be justified.
About the speaker:
Daniel Weinstock holds the Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy at McGill University, where he holds appointments in Law, Philosophy, the Max Bell School of Public Policy, and the School of Population and Global Health. He was recently inducted into the Order of Canada.
This event was made possible through the financial support of the Secrétariat aux relations avec les Québécois d'expression anglaise.
QUESCREN also receives funding from the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities and Concordia University