SOC 503 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Egerton Ryerson, Culture Of The United Kingdom, Aboriginal Peoples In Canada
1 Oct 2020
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Chapter 3: a historical overview of education in canada. Advanced education limited to clergy and those training for a profession. Schools required tuition, limiting attendance to the wealthy. Non-denominational public schools: publicly funded by taxpayers, not oriented towards a particular religion. Voluntary schools: required tuition, progressed to boarding schools for the elite. Religious schools: publicly funded protestant and catholic schools in lower canada, mostly catholic schools funded by the governments of canada. Drafted organizational system for education in canada. Preserve and promote british culture: assimilation. He is the one that drafted the common school act. Created school taxes (so money can be collected from citizens to pay for school) Helped non-indigenous children be the center of education. He created the "curriculum" in indigenous schools. Marginalization of french catholics immigrant threat to social order. Promotion of monarchy and christianity segregation: aboriginal canadian, black canadians, students with disabilities in 1850 ryerson passed a second act.
