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Author Prentice, Alison L.

Title The school promoters : education and social class in mid-nineteenth century Upper Canada / Alison Prentice
Published Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (192 pages) : illustrations
Series The Canadian social history series
Canadian social history series.
Contents Contents -- The Canadian Social History Series -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Sources -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Public School Movement in Upper Canada and Ontario -- 1 Human and Child Nature: The Search for Perfection -- 2 Upper Canada at Mid-Century: The Necessity of Progress -- 3 Education and the Creation of a Respectable Class -- 4 Occupations in Transition: The Danger of Downward Mobility -- 5 The Integration and Invigoration of the Labouring Classes and the Poor -- 6 Class and the Schools
7 Nature, Order and National Education: The Government as ParentIndex -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Education -- Ontario -- History -- 19th century
Educational sociology -- Ontario -- History -- 19th century
Social classes -- Ontario -- History -- 19th century
Education -- Ontario -- History
Educational sociology -- Ontario -- History
EDUCATION -- Comparative.
EDUCATION -- History.
HISTORY -- Canada -- Post-Confederation (1867- )
Education
Educational sociology
Social classes
Ontario
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442682306
1442682302