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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jarrell, Richard A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agricultural education--Ontario.

Agricultural education.

Agricultural education--Ontario--History--19th century.

Agricultural education--Québec (Province)--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 pages)

Place of Publication:

Montreal, [Quebećbec] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016.

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 11, 2016).

ISBN:

9780773599253

0773599258

9780773599246

077359924X

OCLC:

950057118