History of Education
What We Learned
Two Generations Reflect on Tsimshian Education and the Day Schools
Moving beyond the more familiar stories of residential schools, two generations of Tsimshian students recall their experiences attending day and public schools in northwestern British Columbia.
The Teacher and the Superintendent
Native Schooling in the Alaskan Interior, 1904-1918
So They Want Us to Learn French
Promoting and Opposing Bilingualism in English-Speaking Canada
So They Want Us to Learn French examines how and why Canadians both embraced and virulently opposed the ideal of personal bilingualism over the past fifty years, detailing and analyzing the strategies that social movements on both sides used to advance their goals.
A School in Every Village
Educational Reform in a Northeast China County, 1904-31
Engaging with topics central to scholarly debates on modern China, this book shows that China’s early twentieth-century school system, a product of negotiation and compromise, was more successful than previous scholarship has allowed.
New Possibilities for the Past
Shaping History Education in Canada
Canadian historians and educators discuss current debates about history education and historical knowledge to develop an innovative agenda for research and practice in the new millennium.
Keeping the Nation's House
Domestic Management and the Making of Modern China
Explores the vision and aspirations of elite Chinese women – home economists – who believed that the birth of modern China should begin in the home.