The promise of schooling: education in Canada, 1800 - 1914

The Promise of Schooling explores the links between social and educational change in the complex and dynamic period between 1800 and 1914, when Canadian society and its school systems were forged. It raises and seeks to answer a number of questions: How extensive was schooling in the early nineteent...

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Main Author: Axelrod, Paul 1948- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto [u.a.] Univ. of Toronto Press 1997
Series:Themes in Canadian social history 1
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Summary:The Promise of Schooling explores the links between social and educational change in the complex and dynamic period between 1800 and 1914, when Canadian society and its school systems were forged. It raises and seeks to answer a number of questions: How extensive was schooling in the early nineteenth century? What lay behind the campaign to extend publicly funded education? What went on inside the Canadian classroom? How did schools address the needs of Native students, blacks, and the children of immigrants? What cultural and social roles did universities serve by the beginning of the twentieth century? And how were schools affected by the economic and social pressures arising from the Industrial Revolution
The book contends that educational authorities built and reformed schools in ways that were not always consistent with their idealistic visions. Economic constraints, political expediency, and the agendas of ordinary citizens all influenced the life of the Canadian school in an era marked by dynamic social change
Physical Description:X, 155 S.
ISBN:0802008259