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Schooling in Transition offers students a broad survey of key themes in the history of education, bringing together ground-breaking research on developments from across Canada with the best work published in the field. Looking back over two centuries of education history in Canada, this textbook highlights the degree to which key issues – such as local versus central control of the public education system, and the accommodation of minority needs – continue to shape the experience of children within our schools.
Schooling in Transition is ideally structured to accommodate a one-semester university-level course: each chapter contains a short thematic introduction, two articles addressing the common theme, and suggestions for further readings. A general introduction by the editors outlines the main issues in the historiography of education in Canada, while historical illustrations included throughout serve to stimulate readers' interest and promote debate.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction - Schooling in Transition: Writing the History of Canadian Education
Chapter 1: Colonial Schooling
Chapter 2: Education Reform: Concern or Control?
Chapter 3: Local Resistance to Central Policy
Chapter 4: Compulsory Schooling and the Family Economy
Chapter 5: Expanding Opportunities for Women
Chapter 6: Teachers' Work
Chapter 7: Patterns of Exclusion
Chapter 8: Indigenous Education
Chapter 9: French-Language Schooling Outside Quebec
Chapter 10: The Challenges of "Progressive" Education
Chapter 11: Post-War Conformity
Chapter 12: Back to the Basics? Schooling in the 1990s
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