The School Promoters : Education and Social Class in Mid-Nineteenth Century Upper Canada /

We tend to think of contemporary concern for reform in education as unprecedented in its intensity and scope. But as this book about mid-nineteenth century educational ideology shows, the urge to improve society through its schools has been with us a long time. The author examines the attitudes that...

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Autor principal: Prentice, Alison (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
Colección:Canadian Social History Series
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HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-).
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t The Canadian Social History Series --   |t Acknowledgements --   |t Note on Sources --   |t Abbreviations --   |t Introduction: The Public School Movement in Upper Canada and Ontario --   |t Chapter 1. Human and Child Nature: The Search for Perfection --   |t Chapter 2. Upper Canada at Mid-Century: The Necessity of Progress --   |t Chapter 3. Education and the Creation of a Respectable Class --   |t Chapter 4. Occupations in Transition: The Danger of Downward Mobility --   |t Chapter 5. The Integration and Invigoration of the Labouring Glosses and the Poor --   |t Chapter 6. Class and the Schools --   |t Chapter 7. Nature, Order and Notional Education: The Government as Parent --   |t Index 
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