Category ANALYSIS

Rethinking Childhood and Back to Basics Learning

“Growing Up Progressive?” and Progressive Education?

Growing Up Canadian: Citizenship Lessons at School

“Healthy” Children and “Healthy” Schools

“Separate Childhoods and Indigenous Education” In the article, “Implementing Integrated Education Policy for On-Reserve Aboriginal Children in British Columbia, 1951-1981”, Helen Raptis discusses the British Columbia’s earliest integration (the Canadian government changed the Indian act in 1951 to allow for… Continue Reading →

“Racialized Childhoods and Segregated Schooling”   In the article “Black Parents Speak: Education in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Canada West”, Claudette Knight focuses on the history of black access to education in mid-nineteenth –century Canada West. Picking up the various references from different authors,… Continue Reading →

“Gendered Expectations of Youth and the Feminization of Teaching”   In his article “Women Teachers in Canada, 1881-1901 Revisiting the ‘Feminization’ of an Occupation”, Eric W. Sager picks up the story of the sisters written by Jean Barman to tell… Continue Reading →

“Children, Work, and Compulsory Schooling”   In the article “Motherhood and Public Schooling in Victorian Toronto”, Christopher Clubine is articulating the various reasons behind the absenteeism of children in schools and the actions taken by the authorities to check the… Continue Reading →

Prairie Classroom, 1915 Introduction This is a black and white photograph of Prairie classroom at Bruderheim, Alberta. Prairie schools were to be the vehicles by which immigrants would be assimilated (courtesy Glenbow Archives, http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/history-of-education/). I chose this photograph for my… Continue Reading →