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This document discusses the organizational and development years from 1891-1948, the further development and growth years from 1948-1977, and the expansion years from 1977-1991. It also presents information on the constitution of the Canadian Education Association, a chronological list of conventions and presidents, 1892-1991, and a list of significant dates and events in the history of the Canadian Education Association.
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Over the course of the twentieth century, North American public school curricula moved away from the classics and the humanities, and towards ‘progressive’ subjects such as health and social studies. This book delves into how progressivist thinking transformed the rhetoric and the structure of schooling during the first half of the twentieth century, with echoes that reverberate strongly today, and investigates historical meanings of progressive education. Theodore Michael Christou closely examines the case of interwar Ontario, where the entire landscape of public education, including curricula and avenues to post-secondary study, were radically transformed over just twenty years. Christou contextualizes this reformist thinking in light of a social, political, and economic climate of change, which seemed to demand schools that could actively relate learning to the real world. Through its examination of educational journals published throughout the interwar period and previously unexplored archival sources, this book illuminates how the present structure of curricula and schooling were achieved.
Excerpt from Ontario Educational Association, College and High School Department: Chairman's Address, 1907 Is there any reason why at any stage, school or university, the education so far given should be the knowledge qualification for a certificate to teach, any more than to practice law or medicine? We go on the theory, in our training of teachers, that profos sional education consists ia training to teach. No other profos 'sion takes this point of view. The truth is that the year of special training should be devoted mainly to deepening and wid ening actual knowledge. This is the great concern. How little can really be done in theory! What barren mockery is most of such work! I do not min...