“Better and Happier Men and Women”:
    the Agricultural Instruction Act,
    1913-1924

Ambrose, Linda M.

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“…For example, Linda Ambrose has described the ambivalent response to the federal Agricultural Instruction Act (1913) by the rural people it was meant to serve, and argues "that the Borden government's funding for agricultural education actually served to heighten rural discontent rather than to assuage it." 28 These tensions and patterns were apparent in all aspects of rural reform.…”

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Picturing Rural Education: School Photographs and Contested Reform in Early Twentieth-Century Rural Nova Scotia

Spike¹

2012

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This article calls for the critical study of photography in the history of Canadian education,including images that might not at first appear to be politically consequential. It considersthe work of independent, itinerant photographer Frank Adams and argues that in the absenceof other documents produced by local communities, school portrait photographs in earlytwentieth-century rural Nova Scotia may offer an alternative rural perspective on narratives ofProgressive education reform. At a moment when many voices sought to sway public opinionabout what rural education should be, Adams’s school photographs articulated a range ofmeanings assigned to and produced by rural communities that are visibly at odds with the imageryand ideology of Progressive education reform in the period. Produced in the years beforeschool portrait photography became part of the official imagery of educational bureaucracies,Adams’s photographs celebrate a unique sense of place and are evidence of a transitional momentwhen alternative ways of imagining rural education were possible.RésuméCet article propose une étude critique de la photographie dans l’histoire de l’éducation auCanada considérant même des images n’ayant aucune incidence politique à prime abord.L’auteur analyse le travail du photographe indépendant et itinérant Frank Adams en soutenantque faute de documents écrits dans les communautés locales quant à la réforme progressiste del’éducation, les portraitistes scolaires dans le monde rural de la Nouvelle-Écosse au début duvingtième siècle peuvent offrir une solution alternative à l’absence de tels discours. Alors queplusieurs voix essayaient d’influencer l’opinion publique sur ce que devrait être l’éducation enmilieu rural, les photographies prises par Adams illustraient un éventail de principes éducatifsvéhiculés et mis en pratique par les communautés rurales à l’encontre des vues et de l’idéologiede la réforme progressiste de cette période. Produites avant que la photographie scolairesoit intégrée aux images officielles des instances éducationnelles, les photos prises par Adamscommémorent l’importance des identités locales et illustrent une époque transitoire où il étaitencore possible d’imaginer autrement l’éducation en milieu rural.

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