ISBN

9780802098610; 0802098614; 9780802095770; 0802095771

Statement of Responsibility

edited by Sara Z. Burke and Patrice Milewski.

Publication Information

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press

Physical Description

vii, 426 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction. Schooling in transition: writing the history of Canadian education / Sara Z. Burke and Patrice Milewski -- 1. Colonial schooling. The elusive lay schoolmasters of New France / Roger Magnuson ; Teachers and schools in early Ontario / Harry Smaller -- 2. Education reform: concern or control? Egerton Ryerson and the school as an agent of political socialization / Neil McDonald ; Reform, literacy, and the lease: the Prince Edward Island free education act of 1852 / Ian Ross Robertson -- 3. Local resistance to central policy. 'Rage against the dying of the light': interpreting the Guerre des Éteignoirs / Wendie Nelson ; Egerton Ryerson and the origins of the Ontario Secondary School / R.D. Gidney and D.A. Lawr -- 4. Compulsory schooling and the family economy. Motherhood and public schooling in Victorian Toronto / Christopher Clubine ; The boys in the Nova Scotian coal mines: 1873-1923 / Robert McIntosh -- 5. Expanding opportunities for women. Women teachers in Canada, 1881-1901: revisiting the 'feminization' of an occupation / Eric W. Sager ; New women and old Romans: co-education at the University of Toronto, 1884-1895 / Sara Z. Burke -- 6. Teachers' work. They rule by sympathy: the feminization of pedagogy / Kari Dehli ; 'I am here to help if you need me': British Columbia's rural teachers' welfare officer, 1928-1934 / J. Donald Wilson -- 7. Patterns of exclusion. Black parents speak: education in mid-nineteenth-century Canada West / Claudette Knight ; White supremacy, Chinese schooling, and school segregation in Victoria: the case of the Chinese students' strike, 1922-1923 -- 8. Indigenous education. Schooled for inequality: the education of British Columbia Aboriginal children / Jean Barman ; Enabling the autumn seed: toward a decolonized approach to Aboriginal knowledge, language, and education / Marie Battiste -- 9. French-language schooling outside Quebec. Selling education: the problems of convent schools in Acadian New Brunswick, 1858-1886 / Sheila Andrew ; Turbulent times in the Diocese of London: Bishop Fallon and the French-language controversy, 1910-1918 / Jack D. Cècillon -- 10. The challenges of 'progressive' education. 'The little gray book': pedagogy, discourse and rupture in 1937 / Patrice Milewski ; Selling progressive education to Albertans, 1935-1953 / Amy von Heyking -- 11. Postwar conformity. Disciplining children, disciplining parents: the nature and meaning of advice to Canadian parents, 1945-1955 / Mona Gleason ; The triumph of 'formalism': elementary schooling in Vancouver from the 1920s to the 1960s / Neil Sutherland -- 12. Back to the basics? Schooling in the 1990s. Limited vision: the Ontario curriculum and outcomes-based learning / Carol Anne Wien and Curt Dudley-Marling ; School and curriculum reform: Manitoba frameworks and multicultural teacher education / Jon Young and Robert J. Graham.