Families without Schools: Rurality, Correspondence Education, and the Promise of Schooling in Interwar Western Canada

Autor/in	Gleason, Mona
Titel	Families without Schools: Rurality, Correspondence Education, and the Promise of Schooling in Interwar Western Canada
Quelle	In: History of Education Quarterly, 57 (2017) 3, S.305-330 (26 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-2680
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational History; Elementary Schools; Correspondence Schools; Correspondence Study; Rural Population; Rural Education; Educational Demand; Letters (Correspondence); Rural Schools; Politics of Education; Equal Education; Disadvantaged; Working Class; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Elementary school; Grundschule; Volksschule; Fernlehrinstitut; Landbevölkerung; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung; Bildungsanforderung; Bildungsnachfrage; Brief; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Arbeiterklasse; Kanada
Abstract	Using a collection of settler family letters to the Elementary Correspondence School (ECS) in British Columbia, the first provincial government--supported "schooling by mail" arrangement of its kind in Canada, I highlight the efforts of rural families to secure an education for their children in the period between the First and Second World Wars. The settler families who took advantage of correspondence schooling did so without the benefit of a professional teacher or a dedicated schoolhouse. This arrangement proved onerous for many settler families. In their letters to the ECS, adults and young people articulated the belief that the provincial government needed to do more to provide educational services for them. Families were acutely aware of their contributions to the prosperity of the province and, in return, they demanded schools for their children. Given the unique perspectives reflected through this collection of letters, my examination is situated in the interstices between rural schooling and correspondence schooling. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01