Public School and Political Ideas : Canadian Educational Policy in Historical Perspective / Ronald Manzer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manzer, Ronald, author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Canada--History.

Education.

Public schools--Canada--History.

Public schools.

Education and state--Canada.

Education and state.

Canada.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 350 pages)

Other Title:

Public schools & political ideas.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Manzer argues that, from its foundation, elementary and secondary education in Canada has been dominated by liberal conceptions and principles, with each successive liberal ideology taking its place as a public philosophy for state education.

Contents:

Cover; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Political Ideas, Educational Policy, and Policy Analysis; Public Policies, Political Ideas, and Interpretive Analysis; Human Needs, Public Problems, and Political Thinking; Ideological Traditions in Canadian Public Policy; Political Ideas and Educational Policies in Canada; 1 Principles of State Organization and Educational Governance; Central State Educational Authorities; Central and Local Educational Authorities; Central State Authorities and Organized Societal Interests

Political Theory and Interpretive Analysis of Educational Governance2 Principles of Educational Policy Design; Doctrines of Church and State in Education; Formative Principles of Secondary School Organization; Concepts of Language, State, and Education; Interpretive Analysis of Educational Policy Designs; 3 Foundations of Public Education: Religion, Language, and Public Schools; Regimes of Church and State in Nineteenth-Century Education; Language of Instruction: Assimilation versus Segmentation in Nineteenth-Century Schools; Religion, Language, and the Foundation of Educational Regimes

4 Foundations of Public Education: Secondary School Organization and CurriculumUniform Secondary Schools in Ontario, the Maritimes, and the West; Exclusive Sectors in Catholic Quebec and Newfoundland; Political Principles of Nineteenth-Century School Organization and Curriculum; 5 Political Authority and the Foundations of Public Education: Governing Schools in Nineteenth-Century Canada; Central Educational Authority: Ministerial Responsibility versus Civic Trusteeship; Central and Local Authorities in the Governance of Nineteenth-Century Education

Liberal Public Philosophy and the Governance of Nineteenth-Century Public Education6 Economic Liberalism and Secondary Educational Policy: Occupational Selection and Accessibility of Education; Mass Secondary Education and Equal Opportunity: Partite Systems and Bilateral Schools; Occupational Selection and Accessibility of Education in Multilateral Schools; Multilateral Secondary Schools: Educational Ideology and Political Choice; 7 Occupational Selection and Accessibility of Education: Institutional Reforms and Public Resources; Accessibility of Education and Institutional Reforms

Accessibility of Education and the Allocation of Public ResourcesAccessibility of Education, Institutional Reform, and Public Philosophy; 8 Economic Liberalism and the Governance of Education: The Foundations of Educational Policy Communities; Educational Politics, Policy, and Administration: From Parliamentary Government to Executive Policy-Making; Foundations of Educational Policy Communities: The Political Organization of Teachers and Trustees; Executive Policy-Making and the Governance of Education: Policy Communities as Hierarchies

Notes:

Cover title: Public schools & political ideas.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-7580-7

OCLC:

1114874900