Educating the neglected majority : the struggle for agricultural and technical education in nineteenth-century Ontario and Quebec / / Richard A. Jarrell

• Autore: Jarrell Richard A.
• Pubblicazione: Montreal, [Quebećbec] : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (315 pages)
• Disciplina: 630.7109729
• Soggetto topico: Agricultural education - Ontario; Agricultural education - Ontario - History - 19th century; Agricultural education - Québec (Province) - History - 19th century
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: Farmer, Artisan, Mechanic, and Technical Education -- Pre-Confederation (1830s–1867) -- Informal Education for the Farmer to 1867 -- Formal Education for the Farmer to 1867 -- Mechanics’ Institutes and Informal Education to 1867 -- Formal Technical Education to 1867 -- The Campaign (1867–1900) -- Agricultural Education in Ontario -- Agricultural Education in Quebec -- Technical Education in Ontario -- Technical Education in Quebec -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Towards the Twentieth Century -- Appendices -- County Agricultural Societies (1864–1865) -- Mechanics’ Institutes after 1850 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "This is a comparative study of the evolution of technical and agricultural education from the early nineteenth century up to about 1900 in Ontario and Quebec. In the extensive literature on Canadian educational history, these two areas have remained largely on the periphery. No detailed picture exists of the early attempts to teach workers to fit into a Canadian society shaped by the Industrial Revolution. The provincial systems taught basic literacy to children, but did not offer specialized or adult education. Instead, technical education, under a variety of names and guises, occupied the thoughts of educational reformers, educators, legislators, manufacturers, etc., not to mention the 'mechanics' or 'artisans' who might receive it. The book describes both formal training (specialist schools, night classes, teacher training in science and art) and informal means of educating (public lectures, journalism, societies, exhibitions, etc.). The focus is upon the rural and industrial populations, rather than on middle-class-oriented professional and commercial education. The state was central to these efforts, both formal and informal, throughout the century. Earlier studies of specific aspects of education have often ignored events and ideas outside a particular region or group; Jarrell emphasizes the wider context underlying ideas about agricultural and technical education (British, French, American, Irish) and underscores the interplay between the two provinces."--
• Titolo autorizzato: Educating the neglected majority
• ISBN: 0-7735-9925-8; 0-7735-9924-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910798942303321
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