The three sources from this week discuss Canada’s education curriculum reform in an attempt to make schooling more progressive. As seen in Amy von. Heyking’s, “Selling Progressive Education to Albertans, 1935-1953,” in Sara Burke and… Continue Reading →

         In the first article analyzed, “Cadets, Curfews, and Compulsory Schooling: Mobilizing Anglophone Children in WWII Montreal”, by Tamara Myers and Mary Anne Poutanen, found in the scholarly journal, Histoire Sociale, the effects of war on children… Continue Reading →

         In the first reading from the journal Historical Studies in Education, “‘Through no fault of their own’, Josephine Dauphinee and the ‘Subnormal’ Pupils of the Vancouver School System” by Gerald Thomson, the story of a teacher,… Continue Reading →

         In the first article analysed, “Insanity, philanthropy and emigration: dealing with insane children in late-nineteenth-century north-west England”, written by Steven J. Taylor, focuses on how children with mental illnesses were cared for. Taylor’s main argument is… Continue Reading →

         In the first article by David Braddock, Eric Emerson, David Felce, and Roger J. Stancliffe, titled “Living circumstances of children and adults with mental retardation or developmental disabilities in the United States, Canada, England and Wales,… Continue Reading →

         In the article “Motherhood and Public Schooling in Victorian Toronto” by Christopher Clubine, the diaries of W.C Wilkinson, a hired truancy officer, are explored to give insight into how and why urban children were both compelled… Continue Reading →

          In the book Schooling in Transition edited by Sara Z. Burke and Patrice Milewski, containing the article, “Egerton Ryerson and the School as an Agent of Political Socialization”, Ryerson’s main argument is that public education… Continue Reading →