Between Education and Catastrophe: The Battle over Public Schooling in Postwar Manitoba 9780773548435

A detailed account of the educational debate that raged between progressives and traditionalists in postwar Manitoba.

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English Pages [286] Year 2016

Between Education and Catastrophe: The Battle over Public Schooling in Postwar Manitoba
9780773548435

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George Buri

Table of contents :
Cover
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One Progressives versus Traditionalists: The Construction of an Educational Discourse
1 Reconstruction, the New Liberalism, and Child Psychology
2 Child-Centred Education: The Progressive Curriculum in Theory
3 Education for Democratic Citizenship: The Postwar Curriculum in Practice
4 The Traditionalist Backlash
Part Two The Battle over the Schools in the Manitoba Public Education System
5 The Battle over Reading and Grammar
6 The Reinvention of the High School
7 Rural Schools and Rural Life
8 The Battle over Teachers
9 The Royal Commission on Education and the Battle over the Schools in Manitoba
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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