Educating the Neglected Majority ：The Struggle for Agricultural and Technical Education in Nineteenth-Century Ontario and Quebec

Publication subTitle ：The Struggle for Agricultural and Technical Education in Nineteenth-Century Ontario and Quebec

Author： Jarrell; Richard A.

Publisher： McGill-Queen's University Press‎

Publication year： 2016

E-ISBN: 9780773599246

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780773547377

Subject： K7 Americas History

Keyword：美洲史

Language： ENG

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Description

A history of the heroic and sometimes abortive efforts to provide education for farmers and tradespeople in Victorian central Canada.

Chapter

Cover

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Introduction: Farmer, Artisan, Mechanic, and Technical Education

Part One Pre-Confederation (1830s–1867)

1 Informal Education for the Farmer to 1867

2 Formal Education for the Farmer to 1867

3 Mechanics’ Institutes and Informal Education to 1867

4 Formal Technical Education to 1867

Part Two The Campaign (1867–1900)

5 Agricultural Education in Ontario

6 Agricultural Education in Quebec

7 Technical Education in Ontario

8 Technical Education in Quebec

Conclusion

Epilogue: Towards the Twentieth Century

Appendices

Appendix A County Agricultural Societies (1864–1865)

Appendix B Mechanics’ Institutes after 1850

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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