Children in English-Canadian society: Framing the twentieth-century consensus - Hardcover

Sutherland, Neil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802053408 ISBN 13: 9780802053404

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 1976

Synopsis

Book by Sutherland, Neil

About this title

About the Author:

Neil Sutherland is Professor Emeritus of the University of British Columbia’s Department of Educational Studies, where he served for 37 years. He was the principal investigator of the Canadian Childhood History Project located at UBC, and has published articles, reviews and a number of books, most recently Growing Up: Childhood in English Canada from the Great War to the Age of Television.

Cynthia Comacchio is a professor in the Department of History at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario. Her previous publications include Nations Are Built of Babies: Saving Ontarios Mothers and Children, 1900 to 1940 and The Infinite Bonds of Family: Domesticity in Canada, 1850 to 1940. With Elizabeth Jane Errington, she edited People, Places and Times: Topics in Canadian Social History, vol. 1: Pre-Confederation and vol. 2: Post-Confederation.

Review:

``Sutherland has undertaken an ambitious project, and from this reviewers perspective, he has been successful in achieving his goal. He has been able to pull together three different reform movements that focused their attention on the reordering of family life. He is adept in his use of examples, be it a disease such as diphtheria, a school such as the Albert Kelso, or cities such as Winnipeg, Hamilton, Toronto, or Vancouver. It should also be pointed out that Sutherland places the Canadian scene in an international perspective, something that is often lacking in American educational studies.'' (Harvey G. Neufeldt)

``Dr. Sutherland vividly conveys the impact of an amazing variety of reforms through a judicious use of case studies and representative illustrations. This pioneering study of attitudes and policies towards children is primarily concerned with the agencies that were created and revised to reflect the attitudes of reformers. Commendably, the author escapes the dryness and tedium that so often characterizes institutional studies.'' (Judith Fingard)

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0802053408
• ISBN 13: 9780802053404
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336