History of Education Flashcards
What is the study of history?
Stduy of change, examines causes
What was the difference between the schools & curriculums in the past vs. now?
Curriculum was localized & varied
Schools were informal and voluntary
Now:
Curriculum is standardized completely
Schools are publicly funded and compulsory
What was the economic interest?
Industrialization - required a large discipline, literate workforce
Who supports the economic interest?
Industry - employable skills such as punctuality, discipline literacy, tolerance for hours of tedious work
Urban parents - affordable childcare & education to meet the labour intense demands of industrialized work
Who opposed in this economic interest?
Business owners - concerned that educated workers would leave menial jobs
Rurul Parents - worried that school will strip them of much needed farm help
What was the social interest?
Urbanization - accentuated the need to ensure to ensure the social order, lower crime rates & improve public health
Who supported the social interest?
Religious leader - provide the young with religious & moral character
Reformers - offer wayward children care, guidance & protection
Community leaders - Install common values across different backgrounds & classes
Who opposed in the social interest?
French Catholics - secular education assimilates and erodes catholic influence
Progressives - Endanger freedom of though & reduce personal initiative
What was the political interest?
Newly centralized nation-states sought to forge a national identity & create patriots
Who supported the political interest?
The state - inculate youth with alligiance to nation & state
Democrats - Encourage participation in the political process from young citizens
Military - promote discipline, willingness to serve country & recruitment
Who opposed the political interest
Tax payers - additional taxes required to educate the entire population
Elite - an educated population will refuse to obey & challenge the social order
What is the impact of standardized education?
Affordable childcare
Employable skills
common values
moral character
discipline
democratic values
patriotism
Who was Ryerson?
Centralization of education
a. Established public compulsory education
b. Formalized and standardized public education (common curriculum)
c. Required teacher training
d. Was a founder of the first teacher’s college
e. Used taxation to shift costs from parents to property
f. A proponent of residential schools
What was the Indian Act (1876)
Made education of the first Nations a federal responsibility
Separate school for them than the rest of the kids, took them away from thier parents
Who supported the residential schools?
Industry - wished to turn kids into farmers & farmers’ wife
Who supported the residential schools?
State - wanted the chidren to abandon their aboriginal identity
Who supported the residential schools?
Reformers - feared that if the children were not educated, they would be a
Who supported the residential schools?
Democrats - Canadian politicians wished to find a cheap way out of their long-term commitments to Aboriginal people
Who supported the residential schools?
Church - Christian churches sought government support for their missionary efforts
Who supported the residential schools?
Parents - believed attending residential school will allow their kids to succeed in a white person’s world
What was the origin of separate schools in Canada?
Separate schools for catholics, protestants and coloured people
When did the last segregated school close in Canada?
1965
What did the history of education focus on in the past?
- Celebrated the spread & growth of
education - Proselytize on behalf of the teaching
profession - Underpin further advances
What were the revisionists approaches to history?
- Interests served by school systems
- Entrenched power structures
- Draw attention to those marginalized & underserved
