Josh Cole - Hall-Dennis and the Road to Utopia: Education and Modernity in Ontario

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256 Hall-Dennis and the Road to Utopia Education and Modernity in Ontario

Josh Cole

Education and Modernity in Ontario

JOSH COLE

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Title: Hall-Dennis and the road to utopia : education and modernity in Ontario / Josh Cole.

Names: Cole, Josh, 1974- author.

Series: Carleton library series ; 256.

Description: Series statement: Carleton library series ; 256 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20210137150 | Canadiana (ebook) 20210137517 | ISBN 9780228006336 (cloth) | ISBN 9780228006343 (paper) | ISBN 9780228007180 (ePDF) | ISBN 9780228007197 (ePUB)

Subjects: LCSH: Ontario. Provincial Committee on Aims and Objectives of Education in the Schools of Ontario. | LCSH: EducationAims and objectivesOntario. | LCSH: Educational changeCanada. | LCSH: Education and stateOntario. | LCSH: EducationOntario.

Classification: LCC LA418.O6 C496 2021 | DDC 370.9713dc23

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CUE Culture, Understanding, and Enrichment project of the New York State Education Department

CUSO Canadian University Service Overseas

ETV Educational television

FWTAO Federation of Women Teachers Associations of Ontario

IEA Indian-Eskimo Association of Canada

K6 From Kindergarten to Grade Six

K12 From Kindergarten to Grade Twelve

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Living and Learning Provincial Committee on Aims and Objectives of Education in the Schools of Ontario, Living and Learning: The Report of the Provincial Committee on Aims and Objectives of Education in the Schools of Ontario (Toronto: Ontario Department of Education, 1968)

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OECD Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

OEO Office of Economic Opportunity [United States]

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OISE Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto

OTF Ontario Teachers Federation

RG Record Group

SEF Study of Educational Facilities, created by William Davis in 1965 to undertake the design and manufacture of prefabricated schools

VoW Voice of Women

A Note on Usage

Hall-Dennis worked at a time just before the feminist movement alerted many people to the sexist implications of using man as a synonym for humanity and male pronouns as ways of indicating both males and females. When I quote from primary documents, I leave them in this form; when I paraphrase Hall-Dennis, I cast its observations in gender-neutral language unless stylistic conventions forbid it.

References to Indians and Eskimos are preserved in citations from original documents, whereas my paraphrases of arguments about them use the terms Indigenous, Native, and First Nations peoples.

Figure 1 Childrens Faces as a Divisional Marker. Living and Learning, 47.

Figure 2 Ghostly Presences: The Founding Fathers of Educational Theory. Living and Learning, 66.

Figure 3 Urban Desolation: Anonymous Crowds. Living and Learning, 36.