Inventing Secondary Education: The Rise of the High School in Nineteenth-Century Ontario 9780773562394
The received view is that secondary education in Ontario is a result of Egerton Ryerson's Education Act of 1871. Bu
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English Pages 440 [436] Year 1990
Table of contents :
Contents
Tables
Acknowledgments
Illustrations
1 Introduction
2 Patterns of Educational Provision in Upper Canada
3 The Provision of School Places: The Roles of Demand and Supply
4 The Failure of Voluntarism and the Transition to Public Education
5 The Development of the Grammar Schools, 1807–66
6 Teachers, Pupils, and Pedagogy: Inside the World of the Grammar School, 1855–70
7 "A Blot upon the Whole School System": The Attempt to Reform the Grammar Schools, 1853–65
8 The Revenge of the "Parasite Grammar Schools," 1866–69
9 Ryerson in Retreat: The Politics of Education, 1868–76
10 The "Degradation" of the Public School
11 Reshaping the High School Curriculum
12 Defining the Upper Boundaries of the High School
13 The Social and Educational Limits of a High School Education
14 The High School in the 1880s: Changes and Continuities
15 Conclusion
General Tables
Appendices
Notes
Index
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