April 2019

This magazine is the result of the fieldwork that graduate students at OISE, enrolled in the Language and Literacies Education in Multilingual Contexts class, conducted in different areas of Toronto, with the goal to investigate the tokens of linguistic and cultural presence of eight ethno-linguistic groups: the Arabs, Jews, Chinese, Irish, French and la Francophonie, Russians, Ethiopians, and Koreans. Framed as a collection of studies of linguascaping, which is meant to describe the act of exploring and experiencing urban spaces and places of varied linguistic and cultural complexity through mindful observation of one’s immediate surroundings, the first volume presents eight sets of students’ accounts based on extensive narratives of their experiences of their purposeful psychogeographic explorations of Toronto. The magazine includes the photos they took and the artwork they created throughout the course, in support of the content teaching and the pedagogical objectives set by the course requirements.

This magazine can be viewed digitally here: Linguascaping Toronto