Constructing National Identity in Canadian and Australian Classrooms The Crown of Education /

• Main Author: Jackson, Stephen (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Britain and the World
• Subjects: History, Modern.; Imperialism.; Education-History.; America-History.; Islands of the Pacific-History.; Modern History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; History of Education.; History of the Americas.; Australasian History.

This book explores the evolution of Canadian and Australian national identities in the era of decolonization by evaluating educational policies in Ontario, Canada, and Victoria, Australia. Drawing on sources such as textbooks and curricula, the book argues that Britishness, a sense of imperial citiz...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter One: Introduction
• Chapter Two: Society and Education in Mid-Twentieth Century Ontario and Victoria
• Chapter Three: From "Scrub Players Playing on a Vacant Lot" to the Big Leagues: Ontarian and Victorian Educational Constructions of the Imperial Relationship, 1937-1970
• Chapter Four: "The Ideology of all Democratic Nations:" World War II and the Rise of Religious Instruction in Ontario and Victoria
• Chapter Five: An identity quagmire: Ontarian and Victorian Religious Education After 1950
• Chapter Six: The Stereotypical Classroom: Moving towards Multiculturalism in Ontario and Victoria, 1945-1980
• Chapter Seven: Finding Historical Meaning Without Britain
• Chapter Eight: Conclusion.