History

Question 1

Economic, social and political
origin of public schooling (IUI)

Answer 1

Economic: Industrialization - Required a large literate workforce
Social: Urbanization - Breaking down of a job into smaller parts and giving people those jobs
Political: Immigration - Teach immigrants societal norms/values to create a homogenous population

Question 2

Egerton Ryerson’s reforms

Answer 2

1. established public compulsory education
2. Formalized and standardized public education (common curriculum, teacher inspections, common textbooks and libraries in schools)
3. Required teacher training
4. Was a founder of the first teacher’s college
5. Used taxation to shift costs from parents to property ( if you own a piece of
   property, the tax pays for the school)
6. No child is compelled to religious teachings but he is a proponent of residential schools

Question 3

Residential Schooling

Answer 3

Schools with terrible conditions made to “reeducate” first nations to forget their way of life in order to be integrated into western society

Question 4

Davin Report

Answer 4

A report done in 1879 suggesting that first nations children should be removed from their homes to be properly educated as staying around their family will cause them to remain “savage”

Question 5

Common Schools Act,1850

Answer 5

A group of 12 or more families could set up separate schools for Protestants, Roman Catholics, or Coloured people