Research Catalog

Title

Through the schoolhouse door : working papers / Ivor F. Goodson and Christopher J. Anstead.

Author

Goodson, Ivor.

Publication

[Toronto] : Garamond Press in association with RUCCUS, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Anstead, Christopher J.
• Research Unit on Classroom Learning and Computer Use in Schools.

Description

vii, 238 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"The volume ... comprises a set of working papers emerging from an ongoing study of the London Technical and Commercial High School (LTCHS), later known - after its founder - as the H.B. Beal Technical and Commercial High School." p.1.

Series Statement

Research Unit on Classroom Learning and Computer Use in Schools (RUCCUS) ; v. 4

Uniform Title

Occasional papers (Research Unit on Classroom Learning and Computer Use in Schools ; vol. 3.

Subject

London Commercial and Technical High School > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : the case history of a case study -- Behind the classroom door : the historical study of the curriculum -- The origins of technical education in London : context, concerns and curriculum, 1910-1915 / with Ian R. Dowbiggin -- F.W. Merchant and technical classes in London / with Ian R. Dowbiggin -- On explaining curriculum change : H.B. Beal, organizational categories and the rhetoric of justification -- Subject status and curriculum change : commercial education in London, Ontario, 1920-1940 -- Origins and destinations : student sociocultural characteristics and educational experience at the London Technical and Commercial High School, 1913-35 -- Structure and mediation : glimpses of everyday life at the London Technical and Commercial High School, 1920-1940 -- Schooldays are the happiest days of your life : voices, lives and memories.

ISBN

092005921X :

LCCN

cn^93094010^

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Harvard Library