Introduction: An Unexpected Policy Framework -- 1. Defying the Odds I: Provincial Educational Investments and Achievements -- 2. Defying the Odds II: Provincial Education Policies -- 3. Theorizing Policy Frameworks in Federations -- 4. Founding and Consolidating Provincial Public Schooling -- 5. Universalizing Provincial Schooling -- 6. Individualizing Provincial Schooling -- 7. Standardizing Provincial Schooling -- Conclusion: Learning to School -- Appendices
Summary
Beginning with the earliest provincial education policies and taking readers right up to contemporary policy debates, Learning to School chronicles how, through learning and cooperation, the provinces gradually established a country-wide system of public schooling