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- Title
"Open to All Classes on Terms of Perfect Equality": The Association of Mechanics' Institutes and the Establishment of "Adult" Education in Ontario, 1868-1895.
- Authors
Ferry, Darren Neil
- Abstract
Typically, the Mechanics' Institute movement in late nineteenth-century Ontario has been described by historians as an abject failure in providing educational opportunities for young working-class adults. However, under the direction of the Association of Mechanics' Institutes of Ontario (1868-86), Mechanics' Institutes across the province were specifically designed to assist individuals from all social classes and across gender lines to upgrade educational skills that were sorely lacking. As a result, the Association of Mechanics' Institutes of Ontario was an influential and fairly effective transition instrument of the educational state, a bridge between voluntary and rather haphazard way in which education for the working classes was handled before mid-century and the complete takeover of "adult" education by the Ontario Department of Education in 1895.
- Subjects
ONTARIO; HISTORY of education of the working class; EDUCATION; MECHANICS (Persons); SOCIETIES
- Publication
Historical Studies in Education / Revue d'Histoire de l'Éducation, 2015, Vol 27, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
0843-5057
- Publication type
Article