Educating the Neglected Majority is Richard Jarrell's pioneering survey of the attempt to develop and diffuse agricultural and technical education in nineteenth-century Canada's most populous regions. It explores the efforts and achievements of educators, legislators, and manufacturers as they responded to the rapid changes resulting from the Industrial Revolution. Identifying the resources that the state, philanthropic organizations, private schools, moral reform societies, and churches harnessed to implement technical education for the rural and industrial working classes, Jarrell illuminates the formal and informal learning networks of Upper Canada/Ontario and Lower Canada/Quebec at this time. As these colonial societies moved towards mechanization, industrialization, and nationhood, their educational leaders looked to US and British developments in pedagogy and technology to create academic journals, evening classes, libraries, mechanics' institutes, museums, specialist societies, and women's institutes. Supervising these varied activities were legislatures and provincial boards, where key figures such as E.-A. Barnard, J.-B. Meilleur, and Egerton Ryerson played dominant roles. Portraying the powerful hopes and sometimes unrealistic dreams that motivated energetic and determined reformers, Educating the Neglected Majority presents Ontario and Quebec's response to the powerful industrial and demographic forces that were reshaping the North Atlantic world.
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-373) and index
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- 630.71/0713
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- 23
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- 1 electronic text (xiii, 418 pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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- Struggle for agricultural and technical education in nineteenth-century Ontario and Quebec
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Copyright 5
- Contents 8
- Foreword 10
- Preface 12
- Introduction: Farmer, Artisan, Mechanic, and Technical Education 18
- Part One Pre-Confederation (1830s–1867) 26
- 1 Informal Education for the Farmer to 1867 28
- 2 Formal Education for the Farmer to 1867 55
- 3 Mechanics’ Institutes and Informal Education to 1867 80
- 4 Formal Technical Education to 1867 113
- Part Two The Campaign (1867–1900) 144
- 5 Agricultural Education in Ontario 146
- 6 Agricultural Education in Quebec 179
- 7 Technical Education in Ontario 212
- 8 Technical Education in Quebec 253
- Conclusion 282
- Epilogue: Towards the Twentieth Century 293
- Appendices 310
- Appendix A County Agricultural Societies (1864–1865) 312
- Appendix B Mechanics’ Institutes after 1850 315
- Notes 322
- Bibliography 360
- Index 390
