It provides us with a deep understanding of the issues surrounding the role of schools, teachers, and teacher education in the province in the twentieth century. [...] My memory of Neville Scarfe and his contemporaries, and of the faculty members of my own times (and I am sure this applies to the times that followed), are of people, artists, performers, scholars, all of them teachers, eager and able to improve the education of children, no mat- ter what the program was. [...] Philosopher, poet, and writer on major edu- cational concepts, Coleman brought to UBC and continued to cultivate such progressive ideologies as the social significance of play, democracy and the schoolroom, education and nature, education for leisure, and the individual and social ends of education. [...] As a result of Weir’s absences—first to co-author with J. Harold Putman a commissioned survey of the B. C. school system; later to fulfill his pol- itical ambitions in the cause of provincial liberalism—UBC’s department headship in education fell in an acting capacity to Daniel Buchanan, then head of the Department of Mathematics. [...] In particular it is the story of two powerful bodies: the B. C. Department of Education wielding fiscal and curricular control of the provincial school system and teacher certification; and UBC, steward of ancient academic values and eventually the province’s intellectual centre of gravity.
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Foreword 8
- Dr. John Calams Affecting Eternity 8
- Foreword 10
- Neville V. Scarfe 10
- Foreword 12
- When I joined the Faculty 12
- Acknowledgements 16
- In completing this work 16
- At its March 1947 meeting 18
- Prelude 18
- Notes 39
- Postwar 44
- Rumblings 44
- Consistent with the truism 44
- Notes 59
- Despite the efforts thus far 64
- Irons in the 64
- Fire 64
- Notes 80
- With Education Minister 86
- Coming to 86
- Grips 86
- Notes 99
- As correspondence on myriad details 104
- Enter 104
- Joint Board 104
- Notes 120
- As things came to pass 122
- Dr. Johnsons 122
- Committee 122
- Notes 134
- With curriculum well in hand 138
- Anxious 138
- Days 138
- Notes 152
- On January 12 1956 156
- A Sense of 156
- Progress 156
- Notes 168
- By mid-February 1956 172
- The Devil 172
- Notes 189
- In response to repetitious assurances 192
- Remote Control 192
- Notes 205
- Despite hindrances 210
- Thematic Variations 210
- Notes 222
- Three weeks before 224
- Crewing the Ship 224
- Notes 237
- In August 1956 242
- Down the 242
- Slipway 242
- Notes 253
- Despite Dean Scarfes written reflections 258
- Weighing 258
- Anchor 258
- Notes 271
- In spring 1996 276
- Being There 276
- Notes 289
- After UBCs Faculty of Education 292
- Postlude 292
- Notes 312
- Mr. Chairman 314
- Appendix A 314
- Notes 316
- Appendix B 318
- Index 324
