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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Perry, George D. (George Douglas), 1943-     Subjects     Teachers -- Training of -- Nova Scotia -- History.     Teachers -- Training of -- Government policy -- Nova Scotia.     Teachers -- Training of -- Social aspects -- Nova Scotia.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Perry, George D. (George Douglas), 1943-       by title:      The grand regulator ...       by call number:      370.711 P463g     Search the Web     Perry, George D. (George Douglas), 1943-     Teachers -- Training of -- Nova Scotia -- History.     Teachers -- Training of -- Government policy -- Nova Scotia.     Teachers -- Training of -- Social aspects -- Nova Scotia.       MARC Display

The grand regulator : the miseducation of Nova Scotia's teachers, 1838-1997 / George D. Perry. by Perry, George D. (George Douglas), 1943- McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013. Call #: 370.711 P463g Subjects Teachers -- Training of -- Nova Scotia -- History.   Teachers -- Training of -- Government policy -- Nova Scotia.   Teachers -- Training of -- Social aspects -- Nova Scotia. ISBN:  9780773541818 (pbk.) 0773541810 (pbk.) Alternate title:  Miseducation of Nova Scotia's teachers, 1838-1997 Description:  xix, 384 p. ; 23 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-373) and index. Summary:  "Schools of education with utilitarian goals and strict standardization - often called "Normal Schools" - have been widely criticized by both the academy and the general public. In a story that resonates across Canada, The Grand Regulator examines an educational system that failed to inspire great teachers and produce imaginative, thinking citizens. Drawing on an array of archival materials, government publications, and firsthand accounts with former Normal School students, George Perry provides a rich reconstruction of the intellectual, social, economic, and political foundations of teacher education in Nova Scotia, and the methodological preoccupations that have hampered its subsequent development. He shows how a supposed science of education based on child psychology, in concert with the province's regulation of public schooling, justified low expectations for the education of most children and how standardized training programs deemphasized teachers' general liberal education and intellectual curiosity. The most complete study of Canadian teacher education to date, The Grand Regulator presents an analysis of perennial issues regarding the improvement of education that continue to concern us, and illuminates ways of raising the level of instruction in schools today."--Back cover. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Local History Collection 370.711 P463g Non-circulating Local History Room - Central Library, 4th Floor Add Copy to MyList Sackville Public Library Adult Nonfiction 370.711 P463g Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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