The School Promoters : Education and Social Class in Mid-Nineteenth Century Upper Canada / Alison Prentice.
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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University of Toronto Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Canadian Social History Series
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- The Canadian Social History Series
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Sources
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Public School Movement in Upper Canada and Ontario
- Chapter 1. Human and Child Nature: The Search for Perfection
- Chapter 2. Upper Canada at Mid-Century: The Necessity of Progress
- Chapter 3. Education and the Creation of a Respectable Class
- Chapter 4. Occupations in Transition: The Danger of Downward Mobility
- Chapter 5. The Integration and Invigoration of the Labouring Glosses and the Poor
- Chapter 6. Class and the Schools
- Chapter 7. Nature, Order and Notional Education: The Government as Parent
- Index