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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299806303321

Autore

Jackson Stephen

Titolo

Constructing National Identity in Canadian and Australian Classrooms : The Crown of Education / / by Stephen Jackson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9783319894027

3319894021

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 282 p. 2 illus.)

Collana

Britain and the World, , 2947-7190

Disciplina

909.08

Soggetti

History, Modern

Imperialism

Education - History

America - History

Australasia

History

Modern History

Imperialism and Colonialism

History of Education

History of the Americas

Australian History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Society and Education in Mid-Twentieth Century Ontario and Victoria -- Chapter Three: From "Scrub Players Playing on a Vacant Lot" to the Big Leagues: Ontarian and Victorian Educational Constructions of the Imperial Relationship, 1937-1970 -- Chapter Four: "The Ideology of all Democratic Nations:" World War II and the Rise of Religious Instruction in Ontario and Victoria -- Chapter Five: An identity quagmire: Ontarian and Victorian Religious Education After 1950 -- Chapter Six: The Stereotypical Classroom: Moving towards Multiculturalism in Ontario and Victoria, 1945-1980 -- Chapter Seven: Finding Historical Meaning Without Britain -- Chapter



Eight: Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the evolution of Canadian and Australian national identities in the era of decolonization by evaluating educational policies in Ontario, Canada, and Victoria, Australia. Drawing on sources such as textbooks and curricula, the book argues that Britishness, a sense of imperial citizenship connecting white Anglo-Saxons across the British Empire, continued to be a crucial marker of national identity in both Australia and Canada until the late 1960s and early 1970s, when educators in Ontario and Victoria abandoned Britishness in favor of multiculturalism. Chapters explore how textbooks portrayed imperialism, the close relationship between religious education and Britishness, and efforts to end assimilationist Anglocentrism and promote equality in education. The book contributes to British World scholarship by demonstrating how decolonization precipitated a massive search for identity in Ontario and Victoria that continues to challenge educators and policy-makerstoday.