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

Publication subTitle ：The Battle over Public Schooling in Postwar Manitoba

Author： Buri; George

Publisher： McGill-Queen's University Press‎

Publication year： 2016

E-ISBN: 9780773548435

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780773548275

Subject： K7 Americas History

Keyword：美洲史

Language： ENG

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Description

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

Chapter

Cover

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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