Schooling and Scholars in Nineteenth-century Ontario

Schooling and Scholars in Nineteenth-century Ontario
Author: Susan E. Houston
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1988-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780802058010

Nineteenth-century educational reformers were fond of an agricultural metaphor when it came to the provision of more and better schooling: even good land, they argued, had to be cultiated; othersie noxious weeds sprang up. In this study of education in Ontario from the establishment of Upper Canada to the end of Egerton Ryerson's career as chief superintendent of schools in 1876, Susan Houston and Alison Prentice explore the roots of the provincial public school system, set up to instill a work ethic and moral discipline appropriate to the new society, as well as the beginnings of separate schools. today the Ontario school system is once again the subject of intense and often bitter deabte. Many of the most contentious issues have deep and complex roots that go back to this era. Houston and Prentice tell the story of how Ontario came to have a universal school system of exceptional quality and shed valuable light on an area of current concern.

Inventing Secondary Education

Inventing Secondary Education
Author: Robert Douglas Gidney
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 442
Release: 1990
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780773507463

The received view is that secondary education in Ontario is a result of Egerton Ryerson's Education Act of 1871. But R.D. Gidney and W.P.J. Millar show that Ryerson and the Provincial Education Office responded to rather than directed policy in higher education. In fact, the system in place today is evidence of Ryerson's failure to implement the programs he wanted.

The School Promoters

The School Promoters
Author: Alison Prentice
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780802086921

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 shaped the Ontario public school system during its formative years, when Upper Canadians first explored and the provincial government finally adopted the principle of compulsory mass schooling under the auspices and control of the state.

Methodists and Women's Education in Ontario, 1836-1925

Methodists and Women's Education in Ontario, 1836-1925
Author: Johanna Maria Selles
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1996
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780773514430

Situating the evolution of Methodist education for women in Ontario within the larger social and cultural context, Methodists and Women's Education in Ontario describes the often unintended and unforeseen forces unleashed by women's education and the ambi

Early Childhood Care and Education in Canada

Early Childhood Care and Education in Canada
Author: Larry Prochner
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 077484129X

Larry Prochner and Nina Howe reflect the variation within the field by bringing together a multidisciplinary group of experts to address key issues in the field: What programs are currently available and what are their origins? How are adults prepared for work in these programs? How do children within the programs spend their day? What policies guide the programs? How has the field reflected on itself through research? There are no simple answers, but the essays in this collection contribute to a creative reframing of the questions. The authors include psychologists, sociologists, historians, teacher educators, and social policy analysts.

Fred Cumberland

Fred Cumberland
Author: Geoffrey Simmins
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780802006790

Fred Cumberland (1821-81) a Canadian Renaissance man: an architect, railway manager and politician, whose life and work changed Victorian Toronto's urban landscape.

Changing Women, Changing History

Changing Women, Changing History
Author: Diana Lynn Pedersen
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1996
Genre: Women
ISBN: 9780886292805

Changing Women, Changing History is a bibliographic guide to the scholarship, both English and French, on Canadian's women's history. Organized under broad subject headings, and accompanied by author and subject indices it is accessible and comprehensive.

Religion and Schooling in Canada

Religion and Schooling in Canada
Author: Robert K. Crocker
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2022-11-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 2760337820

Christian organizations have always played a large role in Canadian education. By 1949, five provinces had constitutionally protected denominational schools. The federal government’s responsibility for the education of Indigenous Peoples was effectively contracted out to the churches for more than a century, resulting in a history of abuse that has only recently come to light. From the 1950s to the 1970s, several initiatives in different provinces set the stage for significant reforms to education. Some of these tested the limits of denominational protections, but could not shake the underlying constitutional structures. Patriation of the Constitution and adoption of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982 codified fundamental changes in thinking about civil rights. The Charter allowed existing denominational rights to be challenged on many fronts. However, all such challenges were rebuffed by the courts on the grounds that the Charter cannot be used to override other parts of the Constitution. By the 1990s, it became apparent that another route to reform was available, through the amending formula. Constitutional amendments were used to end denominational control of schools in Newfoundland and Quebec in 1997 and 1998. The circumstances around those constitutional amendments are discussed in detail as possible precedents for similar outcomes in Alberta, Ontario, and Saskatchewan. This book contends that change will certainly come to these provinces and several paths to reform are explored. This reform aims to remove the discrimination inherent in denominational institutions while preserving some form of religious involvement in certain schools.