Drew, stressed that the “nervous strain” of the war “continued to exert an influence on every aspect of education in the province.” The same year, the Minister of Education for Ontario, George A. In 1943, the Protestant Board of School Commissioners for the City of Montreal (PBSCM) reported that “the War exercised the dominant role in the life and activities of the schools.” Attention to documents and materials illustrating the war’s impact on education furthers our understanding of the Second World War.Īlthough the fighting was overseas, the repercussions of total war were felt in nearly all areas of the nation’s social, political, and economic life. Through their education, children, youth, and young adults were taught lessons about the war’s meaning that allowed them to make sense of their role in this global conflict.

It also brought militarized forms of student involvement and spurred patriotic fundraising, salvaging, saving, and thrift campaigns regarded as essential to the war effort at home. In elementary schools, high schools, and universities, the war affected enrolment, the availability of teachers and professors, lessons and curriculum, extracurricular activities, and student culture. Urn:oclc:820149266 Republisher_date 20170508094733 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1353 Scandate 20170506201834 Scanner short essay focuses on education within schools and universities during the Second World War in order to explore the relationship between war and learning. OL2835352W Origin-contact Origin-note Physical items are owned or controlled by and digitized by Internet Archive Origin-organization Internet Archive Page_number_confidence 95.50 Pages 758 Ppi 300 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0140086129 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:24:08 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA1151418 City Harmondsworth Donor

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