Children in English-Canadian Society : : Framing the Twentieth-Century Consensus / / Neil Sutherland.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Sutherland, Neil,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1976
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)

In the late nineteenth century a new generation of reformers, believing that it was possible to free Canadian society from many of the problems of humanity, committed itself to a program of social improvements based on the more effective upbringing of all children. This commitment involved changing people’s definition of children: they are no longer seen as beings inherently sinful who could be shaped into adults by discipline and hard work, but rather as innocent plants, requiring a great deal of careful and therefore professional nurture. Children in English-Canadian Society examines the growth of the public health movement and its various efforts at improving the health of children. It treats the new juvenile courts, with their use of family care as the preferred means of rehabilitation; and the schools, the main hothouse for this new society, where such activities as manual and vocation training, school gardening, physical education, and the conscious Canalization of immigrants were introduced. The revolution in attitudes and institutions was complete by the 1920s and for some fifty years it reforms have been an established part of Canada’s social life – some would say too established. Professor Sutherland has a keen eye, both for the illuminating and for the typical, and has assembled this history from English-language sources across the country. It is a readable and important work that will interest social historians and all involved, in whatever capacity, with the care and development of children.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART I. 'Elevate the Home': Changing Attitudes to Children in English-Speaking Canada, 1870-1900 -- 1. 'A Good Home and Kind Treatment': Late-Nineteenth-Century English-Canadian Attitudes to Children and Child-Rearing -- 2. 'Multitudes Better Equipped ... than Their Fathers': A New Childhood for a ~ New Society -- PART II. 'To Create a Strong and Healthy Race': Children in the Public Health Movement, 1880-1920 -- 3. 'Our Whole Aim Is Prevention': Public Health in the Schools, 1880-1914 -- 4. 'Education . .. Carried on Principally in the Home': The Campaign to Reduce Infant Mortality, 1895-1920 -- 5. 'Invariably the Race Levels Down': Mental Hygiene and Canadian Children -- 6. 'How Can We Reach Them?': Making Child Health a Nation-Wide Enterprise -- PART III. 'Remove the Young from Schools of Crime': Transforming the Treatment of Juvenile Delinquents, 1885-1925 -- 7. From Reformatory to Family Home: Late-Nineteenth-Century Young Offenders in the Context of Changing Theory and Prevailing Practice -- 8. Towards 'Intelligent and Progressive Legislation for the Prevention of Crime': Preparing the Way for the Juvenile Delinquents Act, 1886-1908 -- 9. Trying to Make a 'Child into What a Child Should Be': Implementing the Juvenile Delinquents Act, 1908-1925 -- PART IV. 'The School Must Be the Agent': Using the New Education to Make the New Society -- 10. Changing Albert School: The Institutional Context for Education Reform in Canada, 1890-1920 -- 11. 'A Very Strong Undercurrent of Dissatisfaction': Setting the Stage for the 'New' Education, 1885-1900 -- 12. 'The Common Centre from which Radiated Plans and Labours': The Macdonald-Robertson Movement Demonstrates the New Education to Canadians, 1900-1913 -- 13. From Proposals to Policy: The 'New' Education Enters the Main Stream, 1910-1920 -- PART V. Children in English-Canadian Society in the Twentieth Century -- 14. 'Launch a Generation': Organizing to Implement the New Consensus -- Notes -- Bibliographic Note -- Index