This new collection is an ideal sourcebook for courses in the history of education, social history courses and for the general reader interested in the history of education in Canada. It focuses on th
This new collection is an ideal sourcebook for courses in the history of education, social history courses and for the general reader interested in the history of education in Canada. It focuses on the social contexts of education, the curriculum as an instrument of social, economic and political policy, the role and status of teachers, and above all, what actually went on in schools and classrooms.
Each topic begins with an editor introduction, followed by a key secondary interpretative article and concludes with a wealth of primary and secondary source material including diaries and other personal testimony, government reports, statistical surveys, and curriculum documents. All the material in the book was used as the basis for a dynamic course for history and education students.
TABLE OF CONTENTSIntroduction
Chapter 1: Educating Girls and Native Peoples in New France
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Chapter 2: Pioneer Education to 1840
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Chapter 3: Teaching as a Career for Women
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Chapter 4: Curriculum and Pedagogy in Mid-Nineteenth Century
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Chapter 5: Rural School Teachers
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Chapter 6: Gender and Domestic Science
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Chapter 7: The Goals of Physical Education
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Chapter 8: High School Culture Between the Wars
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Chapter 9: Native Education
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Chapter 10: Growing Up: 1914-1960
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Chapter 11: Teaching Teachers
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Chapter 12: The Ideal Curriculum
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Chapter 13: Assessment and Accountability
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Acknowledgements
Endnotes
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Douglas O. Baldwin
was a professor of Canadian History at Acadia University. He now resides in Toronto and continues to write for a variety of publications.
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