The School Promoters : : Education and Social Class in Mid-Nineteenth Century Upper Canada / / Alison Prentice.

• VerfasserIn: Prentice, Alison,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Canadian Social History Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)

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...

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