Teachers’ institutes in late nineteenth‐century Ontario

Autor: Patrice Milewski
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Paedagogica Historica. 44:607-620
ISSN: 1477-674X
0030-9230
DOI: 10.1080/00309230802042862
Popis: Teachers’ institutes for public elementary school teachers in Ontario began to be implemented in the middle of the nineteenth century as a result of the efforts of Egerton Ryerson Superintendent of Schools for Canada West as Ontario was then known. They were based on similar practices that Ryerson had observed on an educational tour in 1845 during which he visited the United States, the British Isles and a number of western European countries including Germany. After initial failures, the passage of the landmark School Act of 1871 provided the context for educational state officials to redouble their efforts to have teachers regularly attend teachers’ institute meetings to further their professional development. After a series of revisions to the regulations and the appointment of a director in 1885, incidents of teacher absence began to be documented and reported to central state authorities. This resulted in a variety of disciplinary actions that culminated with the temporary suspension of Luella Dunn’s...
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