Book ID: CBB713877992

Educating the Neglected Majority: The Struggle for Agricultural and Technical Education in Nineteenth-Century Ontario and Quebec (2016)

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Jarrell, Richard A. (Author)


McGill-Queen's University Press


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 432 pp.
Language: English

Educating the Neglected Majority is Richard Jarrell's pioneering survey of the attempt to develop and diffuse agricultural and technical education in nineteenth-century Canada's most populous regions. It explores the efforts and achievements of educators, legislators, and manufacturers as they responded to the rapid changes resulting from the Industrial Revolution. Identifying the resources that the state, philanthropic organizations, private schools, moral reform societies, and churches harnessed to implement technical education for the rural and industrial working classes, Jarrell illuminates the formal and informal learning networks of Upper Canada/Ontario and Lower Canada/Quebec at this time. As these colonial societies moved towards mechanization, industrialization, and nationhood, their educational leaders looked to US and British developments in pedagogy and technology to create academic journals, evening classes, libraries, mechanics' institutes, museums, specialist societies, and women's institutes. Supervising these varied activities were legislatures and provincial boards, where key figures such as E.-A. Barnard, J.-B. Meilleur, and Egerton Ryerson played dominant roles. Portraying the powerful hopes and sometimes unrealistic dreams that motivated energetic and determined reformers, Educating the Neglected Majority presents Ontario and Quebec's response to the powerful industrial and demographic forces that were reshaping the North Atlantic world.

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Authors & Contributors
McIsaac, Jacqueline
Lucas, Jack
Proulx, Jean Pierre
Jones, Peter M
Masanori 正法 Wada 和田
Delavictoire, Quentin
Concepts
Education, engineering
Technical education
Agriculture
Rural history
Education
Rural development
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Meiji period (Japan, 1868-1910)
Enlightenment
Places
Canada
Ontario (Canada)
Québec (Canada)
France
Montreal (Quebec, Canada)
Nova Scotia
Institutions
Toronto Hospital for the Insane
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