| Description |
1 online resource (433 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Picture Credits -- The Ontario Historical Studies Series -- Preface -- Part One: Interpreting Pioneer Schooling -- 1 Family and State in Upper Canadian Education -- 2 Creating Schools and Scholars -- 3 Schoolmistresses and Schoolmasters -- Part Two: Mid-Nineteenth-Century School Reform -- 4 Towards a Government School System -- 5 The Battle for Control over Public Schools -- 6 Forging a Public School Teaching Force -- Part Three: Behind the Schoolroom Door -- 7 Going to School -- 8 What One Might Teach and Another Learn -- 9 Exceptions to the Rule -- 10 'I Wish I Were Not Here at the Present Juncture' -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- J -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Education -- Canada -- History
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Education
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Prentice, Alison
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| ISBN |
9781442679627 |
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144267962X |
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