Table of Contents
Tables and Figures vii
Acknowledgments ix
Preface xi
Introduction: Teacher Training: "So Little for the Mind"? 3
Part 1 Teacher Training as "Grand Regulator": Establishing a Provincial Normal School, 1838-69
1 "The Grand Regulator": The Normal School Idea in Nova Scotia 25
2 "A Humiliating Defeat" and a Pyrrhic Victory: The Normal School Bill of 1854 48
3 "Several Pounds in Arrears": Training Begins at the Provincial Normal School 64
4 "The Scylla and Charybdis of Politics and Denominationalism": The Normal School and Its Critics 88
Part 2 Beyond "The Mere Giving of Knowledge": The Elusive Balance Between Scholarship and Training, 1870-1926
5 "A Democracy of Education": Schooling and Teachers for the Children of the "Labouring Masses" 109
6 The Normal School's "Duality of Function": Pedagogy and Teachers' General Education 131
7 "The Chloroforming Effect" of Popular Education: Training for Rural Teachers 156
Part 3 Training as a Woman's Story, 1870-1961: The Licensing, Training, and Education of Women Teachers
8 "A Concession to Circumstances": An "Unlimited Supply" of Women Teachers 185
9 "You Took What You Could Get": Why Women (and Men) Taught 214
10 "The Household Life of the Normal School": The "Normalization" of Teaching 241
Part 4 Conclusion: 1961-97
11 Haunted by Its Origins: Provincial Teacher Training after 142 Years 277
Appendix: The Regulation and Training of Teachers: A Chronology 301
A Note on Sources 309
Notes 311
Bibliography 359
Index 375