Schooling and Scholars in Nineteenth-Century Ontario /

Schooling and Scholars in Nineteenth-Century Ontario / / Susan Houston, Alison Prentice.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Houston, Susan,
Prentice, Alison,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1988
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (418 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Picture Credits
  • The Ontario Historical Studies Series
  • Preface
  • Part One: Interpreting Pioneer Schooling
  • 1. Family and State in Upper Canadian Education
  • 2. Creating Schools and Scholars
  • 3. Schoolmistresses and Schoolmasters
  • Part Two: Mid-Nineteenth-Century School Reform
  • 4. Towards a Government School System
  • 5. The Battle for Control over Public Schools
  • 6. Forging a Public School Teaching Force
  • Part Three: Behind the Schoolroom Door
  • 7. Going to School
  • 8. What One Might Teach and Another Learn
  • 9. Exceptions to the Rule
  • 10. 'Wish I Were Not Here at the Present Juncture'
  • Notes
  • Index

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