Knowledge for the People : : The Struggle for Adult Learning in English-Speaking Canada 1828–1973 / / ed. by Michael R. Welton.
Despite the fact that canadian shave been innovative creators of adult education forms and movements and imaginative adaptors of received open, the field of Canadian adult educational history is seriously underdeveloped. One will search in vain for serious debates about the meaning of our past. Know...
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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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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1987 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (196 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction: Reclaiming Our Past: Memory, Traditions, Kindling Hope
- "Useful Education for the Workingman": The Montreal Mechanics' Institute, 1828-70
- Educational Justice for the Campmen: Alfred Fitzpatrick and the Foundation of Frontier College, 1899-1922
- "Housekeepers of the Community": The British Columbia Women's Institutes, 1909-46
- The Struggle for Autonomous Workers' Education: The Workers' Educational Association in Ontario, 1917-51
- "Knowledge for the People": The Origins and Development of the Antigonish Movement
- Dramatizing the Great Issues: Workers' Theatre in the Thirties
- Propaganda for Democracy: John Grierson and Adult Education During the Second World War
- Mobilizing the People for Socialism: The Politics of Adult Education in Saskatchewan, 1944-45
- "An Act of Faith and Optimism": Creating a Co- Operative College in English Canada, 1951-73