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This new edition explores the myriad ways that education, broadly defined, molds each of us in profound and enduring ways. Laid against the supporting scaffolding of modern critical theory, the chapters offer cutting edge perspectives of going to school in British Columbia. How has education been tailored by race, class, gender? How do representations of schools and schooling change over time and whose interests are served? What echoes of current tensions can we hear in the past? The book offers a glimpse of the deep contradictions inherent in an experience that we all share.
About the author
Jean Barman, EdD, is a professor emerita in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. A specialist in British Columbia history, the history of education in Canada, and Aboriginal education, Jean is the author of
The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia and co-editor of
First Nations Education in Canada: The Circle Unfolds.
Mona Gleason, PhD, is an associate professor and the co-ordinator of the Society, Culture, and Politics in Education Program in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her research brings an historical perspective to the study of education, children, and youth in the 19th and 20th centuries.
