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Despite the fact that canadian shave been innovative creators of adult education forms and movements and imaginative adaptors of received open, the field of Canadian adult educational history is seriously underdeveloped. One will search in vain for serious debates about the meaning of our past.
Knowledge for the People seeks to assist in the recovery and understanding of our adult education traditions. Whether it be the innovative laborer-teacher concept of Frontier College, or the Antigonish Movement in Nova Scotia, or the creative use of radio, film, and theatre for purposes of education and citizenship, or the adaption to the Canadian scene of such British imports as the Workers’ Educational Association and the Mechanics’ Institutes, the topics covered in the nine essays in this volume testify to the breadth and depth of this rich heritage.
Adult educators/students and practitioners as well as those interested in the social and intellectual history of Canada will find in this book an attempt to recover a past we can keep faith with, and an endeavour to provide a context and depth for the current discourse on the social purpose of adult education in the final decades of the twentieth century.
Adult educators/students and practitioners as well as those interested in the social and intellectual history of Canada will find in this book an attempt to recover a past we can keep faith with, and an endeavour to provide a context and depth for the current discourse on the social purpose of adult education.
- Imprint: University of Toronto Press
- Published: December 1987
- Pages: 196
Michael R. Welton is Assistant Professor in the Department of Education of Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Chapters
PDF Preface
Introduction: Reclaiming Our Past: Memory, Traditions, Kindling Hope
“Useful Education for the Workingman”: The Montreal Mechanics’ Institute, 1828-70
Educational Justice for the Campmen: Alfred Fitzpatrick and the Foundation of Frontier College, 1899-1922
“Housekeepers of the Community”: The British Columbia Women's Institutes, 1909-46
The Struggle for Autonomous Workers’ Education: The Workers’ Educational Association in Ontario, 1917-51
“Knowledge for the People”: The Origins and Development of the Antigonish Movement
Dramatizing the Great Issues: Workers’ Theatre in the Thirties
Propaganda for Democracy:John Grierson and Adult Education During the Second World War
Mobilizing the People for Socialism: The Politics of Adult Education in Saskatchewan, 1944-45
“An Act of Faith and Optimism”: Creating a Co-operative College in English Canada, 1951-73