
Educating the Neglected Majority
The Struggle for Agricultural and Technical Education in Nineteenth-Century Ontario and Quebec
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Educating the Neglected Majority
The Struggle for Agricultural and Technical Education in Nineteenth-Century Ontario and Quebec
About this book
Educating the Neglected Majority is Richard Jarrell’s pioneering survey of the attempt to develop and diffuse agricultural and technical education in nineteenth-century Canada’s most populous regions. It explores the efforts and achievements of educators, legislators, and manufacturers as they responded to the rapid changes resulting from the Industrial Revolution.
Identifying the resources that the state, philanthropic organizations, private schools, moral reform societies, and churches harnessed to implement technical education for the rural and industrial working classes, Jarrell illuminates the formal and informal learning networks of Upper Canada/Ontario and Lower Canada/Quebec at this time. As these colonial societies moved towards mechanization, industrialization, and nationhood, their educational leaders looked to US and British developments in pedagogy and technology to create academic journals, evening classes, libraries, mechanics’ institutes, museums, specialist societies, and women’s institutes. Supervising these varied activities were legislatures and provincial boards, where key figures such as E.-A. Barnard, J.-B. Meilleur, and Egerton Ryerson played dominant roles.
Portraying the powerful hopes and sometimes unrealistic dreams that motivated energetic and determined reformers, Educating the Neglected Majority presents Ontario and Quebec’s response to the powerful industrial and demographic forces that were reshaping the North Atlantic world.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- 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