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- Title
Industrious, but Formal and Mechanical: The Sisters of Charity of Providence in Residential School Classrooms.
- Authors
Titley, Brian
- Abstract
During the 1940s and 1950s the classrooms at St. Martin's (Wabasca) and St. Bruno's (Joussard) residential schools for First Nations' children in northern Alberta were staffed by the Sisters of Charity of Providence, a religious community that specialized in caring for the sick and the elderly. In this essay the effectiveness of the sisters as teachers is examined in the context of a missionary/reformatory model of schooling that was rapidly falling into disfavour. A picture emerges of a hard-working group of women whose lack of education and teacher training hampered their ability to meet the needs of their students.
- Subjects
NORTH America; ALBERTA; BOARDING schools; FIRST Nations of Canada; MISSIONARIES; DAUGHTERS of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul; EDUCATION
- Publication
Historical Studies in Education / Revue d'Histoire de l'Éducation, 2010, Vol 22, Issue 2, p58
- ISSN
0843-5057
- Publication type
Essay