CTL1423H
This course is directed at those students who want a deeper historical understanding of the changing relationship between one of Canada's oldest institutions - the family - and the growth of the modern world in general, and the educational state in particular. Although Canadians usually associate the family with the personal and private aspects of their lives, the institution of the family has also been at the centre of Canada's economic, political and cultural structures for hundreds of years. This course will examine the changing and varied relations among many different kinds of parents, children, and the larger social formations within which they lived, with particular emphasis on the dynamic, often vexed, relationship between schooling and family life in the wider contexts of Canadian history.