Classified landscapes of education: the Ontario Educational Exhibition of 1876

Mah, Kai Wood

doi:10.1080/14725860601167234

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“…Specific skills were needed to perform job tasks safely, and a process of enculturation was required to create the kind of workers that were sufficient for these jobs (Osborne, 1999). This shift can be connected to the promotion of free (universal) schooling by Egerton Ryerson (1840s) through public taxation (Gaffield, 2013;Mah, 2007). Osborne (1999) summarizes that "schools would train children to tell the time, to run their lives by the clock, to work hard even at tasks they saw no point in, to obey orders and generally to accept what life offered them without complaint" (p. 6).…”

Section: Industrial and Technical Revolutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Educating for Meaningful Citizenship: A Critical Corpus Analysis of Public Education Policy in Canada

Lalonde¹

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Public education is tasked not only with educating, but also with instilling values, knowledge and skill building, and preparation for citizenship Noddings, 2016;Westheimer, 2015). In Canada, education is provincially mandated, but there have been growing pressures and efforts to standardize policy, curricula, and practice across the country under the banner of inclusion, testing and assessment, and accountability within a globalized neoliberal society (Polster & Newson, 2015;Stack, 2016;Westheimer, 2015). Of particular concern is how these pressures are manifested within education policy and how they may in turn affect the way students and citizenship are invoked and talked about.This study critically investigates the discursive construction of particular actors (students and citizens) within policy-level education discourse (PLED). Informed by Critical Discourse Studies (CDS), I combine the discourse-historical approach (Reisigl & Wodak, 2016) and corpus-assisted discourse studies (Mautner, 2007(Mautner, , 2016 to analyze the discursive construction of and agency afforded (or not) to students and citizens. A total of 22 policy texts collected from the Ministries/Departments of Education across the provinces and territories between 2018-19 formed the basis of the small reference corpus, from which six provinces-British Columbia,

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Section: Industrial and Technical Revolutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Educating for Meaningful Citizenship: A Critical Corpus Analysis of Public Education Policy in Canada

Lalonde¹

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“…Specific skills were needed to perform job tasks safely, and a process of enculturation was required to create the kind of workers that were sufficient for these jobs. This can be connected to the promotion of free (universal) schooling by Egerton Ryerson through public taxation (Mah, 2007). Osborne (1999) summarizes that "schools would train children to tell the time, to run their lives by the clock, to work hard even at tasks they saw no point in, to obey orders and generally to accept what life offered them without complaint" (p. 6).…”

Section: Industrial and Technical Revolutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%