Table of Contents
Introduction - Schooling in Transition: Writing the History of Canadian Education
Chapter 1: Colonial Schooling
Chapter 2: Education Reform: Concern or Control?
Chapter 3: Local Resistance to Central Policy
Chapter 4: Compulsory Schooling and the Family Economy
Chapter 5: Expanding Opportunities for Women
Chapter 6: Teachers' Work
Chapter 7: Patterns of Exclusion
Chapter 8: Indigenous Education
Chapter 9: French-Language Schooling Outside Quebec
Chapter 10: The Challenges of "Progressive" Education
Chapter 11: Post-War Conformity
Chapter 12: Back to the Basics? Schooling in the 1990s
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Sara Z. Burke is an associate professor in the Department of
History at Laurentian University.
Patrice Milewski is an associate professor in the School of
Education at Laurentian University.
‘Burke and Milewski have accomplished their goal of preparing a
collection of “stimulating discussions, debate, and further
research”.’
*Canadian Historical Review, vol 95:01:2014*
‘The editors have selected judiciously from an extensive body of
literature. These essays not only address major themes in the
history of education but also relate to important issues in the
wider fields of social, economic, and political history.’
*BC Studies issue 186 summer 2015*
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