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EDUC 300: Building the Canadian Learning Society: Historical Perspectives (Rev. C2)
EDUC 300: Building the Canadian Learning Society: Historical Perspectives (Rev. C2)
This senior-level, three-credit course will provide an overview of adult learning and education from the 16th century to the 20th. You will learn about “uncommon schools,” and be encouraged to think about how men, women, and children learned in different times and places. We will have to learn to break out of our own “schooled imaginations” as we consider how our foremothers and forefathers learned to make a living, live their lives, and express themselves.
Unit 1– Reclaiming Our Past: Memory, Tradition, Kindling Hope
MacMillan, M. (2008). History wars. In The uses and abuses of history (pp. 126-152). Toronto: Viking Canada.
Boughton, B., Taksa, L., and Welton, M. (2004). Histories of adult education. In Dimensions of adult learning: Adult education and training in a global era (pp. 121–136). Berkshire, UK: Open University Press, 121–136.
Welton, M. R. (1987). Introduction: Reclaiming our past: Memory, traditions, kindling hope. In M. R. Welton (Ed.), Knowledge for the people: The struggle for adult learning in English-speaking Canada ,1828-1873 (pp. 1-19). Toronto: OISE Press.
Welton, M. R. (2005). Historical inquiry. In L. English (Ed.), International encyclopedia of adult education (pp. 283–286). New York: Palgraye Macmillan.
Legge, D. (1990). The place of history of adult education in the study of adult education and in the training of adult educators. Historical Foundations of Adult Education , 4(3-4), 11-18. Toronto: Viking Canada.
Unit 2 – First Encounters: New Worlds, Old Maps (1492-1760)
Unit 3 – Adult Learning in the Age of Improvement (1760-1880)
Welton, M. R. Extending the circle of conversation: Agricultural adult education in Nova Scotia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Unpublished manuscript. Reproduced by permission of Dr. Michael Welton.
Robins, N. (1987). Useful education for the workingman: The Montreal Mechanics Institute, 1828-1870. In M. R Welton (Ed.), Knowledge for the People:The struggle for adult learning in English-speaking Canada (pp. 20–34). Toronto: OISE Press.
Keane, P. (1975). A study in early problems and policies in adult education:The Halifax Mechanics' Institute. Social History, 6 (16), 255-274.
Frost, 5. (1982). Science education in the nineteenth century: The Natural History Society of Montreal, 1827-1925. McGill Journal of Education, XVII(l), 31-43.
McNairn, J. (1997). The capacity to judge: Public opinion and deliberative democracy in Upper Canada, 1791–1854. (Ph.D. Thesis. Department of Histop. University of Toronto.
Murray, H. (1999), Great works and good works: The Toronto Women’s Literary Club, 1877–1883 Historical Studies in Education, 11 (1), 75–95.
Dunlop, A. (1973). The Pictou literature and scientific society. Nova Scotia Historical Quarterly, 3 (2), 99-116.
Bernard, D. (n.d.} "Learning traditions among African Nova Scotians" and "Rendering the invisible visible: the life and times of Richard Preston," unpublished papers. Reproduced by permission of the author.
Miller, J. R (1989). Contact, commerce and Christianity on the Pacific. In J. R Miller (Ed,), Skyscrapers hide the heavens: A history of Indian-White relations in Canad a (pp. 136-151). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online , 2009. Online entry on Richard Preston
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online , 2009. Online entry on William Duncan
Unit 4 – Adult Education in the Age of the ‘Great Transformation’ (1880-1929)
Welton. M. (1991). Dangerous knowledge: Canadian workers’ education in the Decades of Discord. Studies in the Education of Adults, 23 (1), April 1991, 24–40.
Cook, G. (1987). Educational justice for the campmen: Alfred Fitzpatriclc and the foundation of Frontier College,1899–1922. In M. R. Welton (Ed.}, Knowledge for the people (pp. 35–51) Toronto: OISE Press.
Dennison, C. (1987). "Housekeepers of the community": The British Columbia Women's Institutes, 1909-46. In M. R Welton, (Ed.), Knowledge for the people (pp. 53–72). Toronto: OISE Press.
Taylor, G. (2000). Let us cooperate: Violet McNaughton and the cooperative ideal. In B. Fairbairn et al. (Eds.), Canadian cooperatives in the year 2000: Memory, mutual aid and the millennium (pp. 57–78). Saskatoon: Centre for the Study of Cooperatives.
Bernard, D. (n.d.). The African Union Baptist Association (AUBA) as a women's learning site. Unpublished paper. Reproduced by permission of the author.
Grace, A. (1995). The gospel according to Father Jimmy: The missions of J. J. Tompkins, pioneer adult educator in the Antigonish Movement. Convergence, 28 (2), 63–78.
Welton, M. 'Fraught with wonderful possibilities': Father Jimmy Tompkins and the struggle for a Catholic progressivism, 1912–1922. Studies in Continuing Education, 2 7(2), July 2005, pp. 117-134.
Welton, M. (2003). Pioneers and progressive pedagogues: Carrying the university to the people of Saskatchewan, 1905–1928.The Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education , 17(2), 59–82.
Unit 5 – Adult Education and the Crisis of Democracy (1929-1960)
Welton, M. (1987). On the eve of a great mass movement: Reflections on the origins of the CAAE. In F. Cassidy and R Faris (Eds.), Choosing our future: Adult education and public policy in Canada (pp. 12-35). Toronto: OISE Press.
Welton, M. (1987). "'A most insistent demand: The Pas Experiment in community eduction, 1938–1940. The Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 1 (2), 1–22.
Lotz, J. and Welton, M. (1987). Knowledge for the people: The origins and development of the Antjgonish Movement. In M. R Welton (Ed.), Knowledge for the people (pp. 97–111). Toronto: OISE Press.
Welton, M. R. (2001). Mobilizing the people for enlightenment (1930-1935). In M.R Welton (Ed.), Little Mosie from the Margaree: A biography of Moses Michael
Coady (pp. 65–89). Toronto: Thompson Educational Press.
Friesen, G. (1994). Adult Education and union education: Aspects of English Canadian cultural history in the 20th century. Labour/Le Travail, 34 , 163–188.
Welton, M. (1986). ’An authentic instrument of the democratic process’: The intellectual origins of the Canadian Citizens’ Forum. Studies in the Education of Adults,18 (1), 35–49.
Rands, 5. (1946). Films, forums, and community action. Film Forum Review , 6–8.
Sim, R. (1954). Canada's farm radio forum. In J.R. Kidd (Ed.), Learning and society (pp. 213–222). Toronto: CAAE.
Welton, M. (2006). Intimations of a just learning society: From the United Farmers of Aiberta to Henson's provincial plan in Nova Scotia. Iri T. Fenwick et al., (Eds.), Contexts of adult educatiqn: Canadian perspectives (pp. 24–35). Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishers.
Welton, M. R (1987). Mobilizing the people for socialism: The politics of adult education in Saskatchewan, 1944-4.5. In Michael Welton (Ed.), Knowledge for the people (pp. 151–169). Toronto: OISE Press.
Unit 6 – Propelled into the Learning Age (1960-2019)
Video and Audio Files
Welton, Michael. “A Discussion of the History of Adult Education in Canada.” Athabasca University, 2011. [video]
Welton, Michael. “Audio 1: Michael Welton answers ‘When you began….’” Athabasca University, 2011.
Welton, Michael. “Audio 2: Michael Welton answers ‘Moses Coady plays….’” Athabasca University, 2011.
Welton, Michael. “Audio 3: Michael Welton answers ‘You’ve said that people….’” Athabasca University, 2011.
Welton, Michael. “Audio 4: Michael Welton answers ‘You refer to history….’” Athabasca University, 2011.
