To serve Canada : a history of the Royal Military College since the Second World War / Richard A. Preston ; with a foreword by A.J.G.D. de Chastelain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Preston, Richard A., 1910-2006.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military education--Canada--History.

Military education.

Royal Military College of Canada--History.

Royal Military College of Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, c1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the four decades following the Second World War, the Royal Military College of Canada has adapted to the need to produce professional career officers by evolving into an academic centre of excellence and one of the country's leading universities. Along the way, it has responded to the challenges of service integration and unification, bilingualism, the emergence of Collège militaire royal and Royal Roads Military College, the employment of women in non-traditional roles, Canada's changing cultural make-up, and the rapid pace of technological change. In a society in which the precep

Contents:

CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS; INTRODUCTION: Tradition and Change in Military Education; CHAPTER 1 The Old RMC and the New Canadian Services Colleges; CHAPTER 2 Winds of Change: The Regular Officer Training Plan and Collège Militaire Royal; CHAPTER 3 A Two-Year Military Training Course or a Degree?; CHAPTER 4 Under the Director of the Regular Officer Training Plan; CHAPTER 5 Manpower and Integration Problems; CHAPTER 6 Unification, the Officer Development Board, and Professionalism

CHAPTER 7 The Canadian Defence Educational Establishments and Canadian Military Professionalism in RMCCHAPTER 8 The Directorate of Professional Education and Development and the Rationalization of the Canadian Military Colleges; CHAPTER 9 Serving Personnel at RMC; CHAPTER 10 Francophone Representation and Bilingualism; CHAPTER 11 Institutional Bilingualism; CHAPTER 12 Lady Cadets; CHAPTER 13 University for the Canadian Forces; NOTES; APPENDICES; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-226) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780776617329

077661732X

OCLC:

742332988