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.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-407) and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 370/.9713
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 19
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9781442679627 0802058019
- LCCN
- LA411.7
- LCCN Item number
- H68 1988eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- Uk
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xiv, 418 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00604300 (OCoLC)244768541 (CaOOCEL)420829
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- Uk
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Picture Credits 7
- The Ontario Historical Studies Series 8
- Preface 10
- Part One: Interpreting Pioneer Schooling 16
- 1 Family and State in Upper Canadian Education 23
- 2 Creating Schools and Scholars 48
- 3 Schoolmistresses and Schoolmasters 76
- Part Two: Mid-Nineteenth-Century School Reform 104
- 4 Towards a Government School System 112
- 5 The Battle for Control over Public Schools 139
- 6 Forging a Public School Teaching Force 172
- Part Three: Behind the Schoolroom Door 202
- 7 Going to School 214
- 8 What One Might Teach and Another Learn 250
- 9 Exceptions to the Rule 288
- 10 'I Wish I Were Not Here at the Present Juncture' 325
- Notes 360
- Index 423
- A 423
- B 423
- C 424
- D 425
- E 426
- F 426
- G 426
- H 427
- I 427
- J 428
- K 428
- J 428
- M 428
- N 429
- O 429
- P 429
- Q 430
- R 430
- S 431
- T 432
- U 433
- V 433
- W 433
- Y 433
