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  • University College

    A Portrait, 1853-1953

    Edited by Claude Bissell ...
    Series series Heritage
    For a century University College has had a profound and continuous influence on the cultural development of Canada. The authors of this volume show us University College as a political and educational institution; as a physical structure that has aroused admiration and scholarly curiosity; as the home of a long line of great teachers and scholars, and of a student body diverse in its origins and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Harold Adams Innis

    Portrait of a Scholar

    Series series Heritage
    Harold Adams Innis died a quarter century ago. At the time of his death in 1952 he was Canada's pre-eminent scholar in the field of the social sciences. His reputation was based on his monumental contributions to Canadian economic history and the role of the means of communication in shaping history. As so often happens, his ideas were not greatly followed up, except by Marshall McLuhan, for some ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Sidney Earle Smith

    Series series Heritage
    The career of Sidney Earle Smith, Dean of Law, Dalhousie University (1929-34), President of the University of Manitoba (1934-44), President of the University of Toronto (1945-59), had a variety of backgrounds which were significant in determining his impressive achievement in Canada's humanistic tradition. He was reared in the vigorous landscape and living of the Maritimes, rigorously trained in ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • On Higher Education

    Five Lectures

    Edited by D.F. Dadson ...
    Series series Heritage
    During the session of 1964-65, the Ontario College of Education sponsored this series of lectures on Higher Education. The first two lectures in the volume, by Robin Harris, Principal of Innis College, and Professor of Higher Education are entitled "The Establishment of a Provincial University in Ontario" and "The Evolution of a Provincial System of Higher Education in Ontario." They provide a ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Quiet Evolution

    A Study of the Educational System of Ontario

    by Robin Harris ...
    Series series Heritage
    During the past few years there have been several changes in the educational system of Ontario: a reorganization of the Department of Education, the abolition of the school section, the establishment of post-secondary institutions of applied arts and technology, and the reform of Grade 13. Others are in prospect: the abolition of Grade 13 departmental examinations, the requirement that all ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Teachers of the Foothills Province

    The Story of The Alberta Teachers' Association

    by John Chalmers ...
    Series series Heritage
    In 1967 the Alberta Teachers' Association published, in honour of Canada's Centennial, a history of the public school system in Alberta entitled Schools of the Foothills Province. This informative book published for the Association by University of Toronto Press is now followed by a companion volume written by the same author, which tells the story of the Association itself, and its long and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Nursing Education in a Changing Society

    Edited by Mary Innis ...
    Series series Heritage
    Rapid social change and the advances made in the field of health care have greatly changed the role and function of the nurse in the last fifty years. Nursing is now almost a full-fledged profession.This book celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the School of Nursing of the University of Toronto. The field it covers is wide and varied – from care of the sick by the nuns of early Quebec to the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Significant Developments in Local School Systems

    Ontario's Educative Society, Volume VI

    by W.G. Fleming ...
    Series series Heritage
    This volume deals with innovative developments of many different kinds in the local school systems in the years up to 1970. Information was obtained from a sampling of school boards, including the largest. The major purpose is to show what may be expected from an educational organization that gives local authorities a certain amount of leeway to depart from standard procedures. Innovations in ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • On the Idea of a University

    by J.M. Cameron ...
    Series series Heritage
    Starting from Newman`s concept of the university as a place of liberal education, Professor Cameron examines how today`s university functions, what its aims should be and what its strengths and deficiencies are, and presents some proposals for reform. He argues that liberal education, in which knowledge is pursued for its own sake as well as for the advantages it may bring, should remain the core ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Schools for Ontario

    Policy-making, Administration, and Finance in the 1960s

    by David Cameron ...
    Series series Heritage
    The governing and financing of public education is everywhere a complex undertaking. The 1960s was for Ontario a vital decade in education, when the structure of local school boards, provincial and federal financing and control, the provision of academic and vocational systems, and the Department of Education itself were all reconsidered and changed to attain greater efficiency and opportunity ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Cold Iron and Lady Godiva

    Engineering Education at Toronto 1920-1972

    Edited by Ian Montagnes, Robin Harris ...
    Series series Heritage
    The Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto is celebrating its 100th anniversary. This informal volume concentrates on the last half century. It examines the development of the Faculty and of its undergraduate and alumni organizations; the changing undergraduate scene since 1920, through a depression, the return of soldiers to university after two world wars, and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Halfway up Parnassus

    A Personal Account of the University of Toronto, 1932-1971

    Series series Heritage
    Halfway up Parnassus is a personal account of the University of Toronto with particular emphasis on the period when Dr. Bissell was its president, from 1958 to 1971. The first half of that period was the flowering of the old, self-confident university, with its established patterns of government, and its untroubled constituents. The second half saw the slow, powerful emergence of a new university, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Priests and Politicians

    Manitoba Schools and the Election of 1896

    by Paul Crunican ...
    Series series Heritage
    In the decade beginning with the hanging of Louis Riel in 1885, a series of radical and religious conflicts shook Canada, culminating in the Manitoba school crisis of the 1890s. By 1896, the focal point of the controversy was remedialism, the attempt to have Roman Catholic school privileges in Manitoba restored by federal action against the provincial government. The struggle over remedialism ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • A History of Higher Education in Canada 1663-1960

    by Robin Harris ...
    Series series Heritage
    This book traces the development of higher education in Canada, through a detailed description and analysis of what was being taught and of the research opportunities available to professors in the years from 1860 to 1960. Background is provided in the opening chapters of Part I, which outline the origins of post-secondary education in both French and English Canada from 1635 to 1860, and in the ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • The Enduring Word

    A Centennial History of Wycliffe College

    Edited by Arnold Edinborough ...
    Series series Heritage
    Since Wycliffe College was founded 100 years ago as an Anglican theological college in Toronto, it has had six principals. To celebrate the influence they and the college have had on the religious life of Canada and other countries, six writers have collaborated to produce The Enduring Word.The lives of the five past principals have been written by Jacob Jocz, T.R. Millman, R.K. Harrison, Alan ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It

    The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson

    Histories of the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955–1956 typically focus on Rose Parks, who refused to yield her bus seat to a white man, and on a young Martin Luther King Jr., who became the spokesman for the black community organization set up to pursue a boycott of Montgomery's segregated city buses. In an important revision of the traditional account, this extraordinary personal memoir reveals an ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Path Not Strewn With Roses

    One Hundred Years of Women at the University of Toronto 1884-1984

    Series series Heritage
    In the histories of the University of Toronto which have been written to date women are conspicuous in their absence. It must be stressed that the present book is not intended to stand as a full-scale history of women at the University of Toronto. It is, rather, a preliminary attempt to gather together some of the materials of fundamental significance to women's experience at this University. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Diverted Dream

    Community Colleges and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in America, 1900-1985

    In the twentieth century, Americans have increasingly looked to the schools--and, in particular, to the nation's colleges and universities--as guardians of the cherished national ideal of equality of opportunity. With the best jobs increasingly monopolized by those with higher education, the opportunity to attend college has become an integral part of the American dream of upward mobility. The two ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Origins of Federal Support for Higher Education

    George W. Atherton and the Land-Grant College Movement

    The Origins of Federal Support for Higher Education revises the traditional interpretation of the land-grant college movement, whose institutions were brought into being by the 1862 Morrill Act to provide for "the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes." Rather than being the inevitable consequence of the unfolding dynamic of institutional and socioeconomic forces, Williams ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Idea of a University, The

    Series series Notre Dame Series in Great Books
    "The Idea of a University [is an] eloquent defense of a liberal education which is perhaps the most timeless of all [Newman’s] books and certainly the one most intellectually accessible to readers of every religious faith and of none. . . . [O]nly one who has read The Idea of a University in its entirety, especially the nine discourses, can hope to understand why its reputation is so high: why the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Lifting a Ton of Feathers

    A Woman's Guide to Surviving in the Academic World

    Series series Heritage
    Lifting a Ton of Feathers is not only a survival guide, it is also a destroyer of academic myths about women's career chances in the university, and a revelation of the catch-22 positions in which women find themselves. Caplan demonstrates that while many women believe that when they fail it is their fault, their fate is more likely to be sealed by their encounter with the male environment, and by ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Train Go Sorry

    Inside a Deaf World

    A “remarkable and insightful” look inside a New York City school for the deaf, blending memoir and history (The New York Times Book Review).Leah Hager Cohen is part of the hearing world, but grew up among the deaf community. Her Russian-born grandfather had been deaf—a fact hidden by his parents as they took him through Ellis Island—and her father served as superintendent at the Lexington School ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Civil Obedience

    An Oral History of School Desegregation in Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1954–1965

    Among the many changes that have occurred in our country in the last forty years, few have been as significant as those heralded by the Supreme Court's decision in the Brown vs. Board of Education case in 1954. By declaring racially segregated public schools unconstitutional, the court set in motion forces that resulted in the dismantling of the legal structure of Jim Crowism. The impact of the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Tinkering toward Utopia

    A Century of Public School Reform

    For over a century, Americans have translated their cultural anxieties and hopes into dramatic demands for educational reform. Although policy talk has sounded a millennial tone, the actual reforms have been gradual and incremental. Tinkering toward Utopia documents the dynamic tension between Americans’ faith in education as a panacea and the moderate pace of change in educational practices.In ... Read more

    $31.99 USD