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- Title
'Make Me Truthful, Good, and Mild': Values in Nineteenth-Century Ontario Schoolbooks.
- Authors
Baldus, Bernd; Kassam, Meenaz
- Abstract
This paper examines values in textbooks used in Upper Canada/Ontario primary schools between 1846 and 1910. Value-oriented content was prominent in these books. Their focus on social class, work motivations, and general personal morality reflected closely the political apprehensions of the province's upper class. At the same time, these fears were often based on erroneous assessments of Ontario society and led to values in the schoolbooks which veered away from or even contradicted the interests of this group. Such discrepancies underline the complexity of the relationship between class structure, beliefs, and values.
- Subjects
CANADA; TEXTBOOKS; SOCIAL classes; SCHOOLS; EMPLOYEE motivation; VALUES (Ethics)
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1996, Vol 21, Issue 3, p327
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3341770