The Grand Regulator: The Miseducation of Nova Scotia's Teachers, 1838-1997 9780773588929

The first full-length study of the historical failure of teacher education in Canada.

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The Grand Regulator: The Miseducation of Nova Scotia's Teachers, 1838-1997
9780773588929

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George D. Perry

Table of contents :
Cover
Copyright
Contents
Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction - Teacher Training “So Little for the Mind”?
PART ONE - Teacher Training as “Grand Regulator”: Establishing a Provincial Normal School, 1838–69
1 - “The Grand Regulator”: The Normal School Idea in Nova Scotia
2 - “A Humiliating Defeat” and a Pyrrhic Victory: The Normal School Bill of 1854
3 - “Several Pounds In Arrears”: Training Begins at the Provincial Normal School
4 - “The Scylla and Charybdis of Politics and Denominationalism”: The Normal School and Its Critics
PART TWO- Beyond “the Mere Giving of Knowledge”: The Elusive Balance between Scholarship and Training, 1870–1926
5 - “A Democracy of Education”: Schooling and Teachers for the Children of the “Labouring Masses”
6 - The Normal School’s “Duality of Function”: Pedagogy and Teachers’ General Education
7 - “The Chloroforming Effect” of Popular Education: Training for Rural Teachers
PART THREE - Training as a Woman’s Story, 1870–1961: The Licensing, Training, and Education of Women Teachers
8 - “A Concession to Circumstances”: An “Unlimited Supply” of Women Teachers
9 - “You Took What You Could Get”: Why Women (and Men) Taught
10 - “The Household Life of the Normal School”: The “Normalization” of Teaching
PART FOUR - Conclusion: 1961–97
11 - Haunted by Its Origins: Provincial Teacher Training after 142 Years
APPENDIX - The Regulation and Training of Teachers: A Chronology
A Note on Sources
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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