Abstract:The history of childhood and youth in the Canadian context emerged in the 1970s under the rubric of the new social history. The field was first animated by scholars seeking to historicize the colonial state’s, along with civil society’s, various interventions into the lives of young people. Foundational works focused on the progressive reform impulse to expand the state’s responsibility for children and improve children’s status within the settler colonial nation. This first wave of scholarship, which came out… Show more
“…Despite a rapidly growing historiography devoted young people in Canada (see Gleason and Myers, 2014), their relationship with the environment has been largely overlooked. This has been due, at least in part, to a lack of sources.…”
Section: Contextualizing the Study: History Of Education And History mentioning
This article explores archival letters written by children and their parents to the Elementary Correspondence School in the Canadian province of British Columbia in the early 20th century. Parents, anxious for their children to be formally educated, expressed concern about their remote location in rugged parts of the province. Children focused their letter writing on their informal learning with, and on, the land. This history invites adults to recognize the varieties of ways that children, on their own terms, connect with the natural environment.
“…Despite a rapidly growing historiography devoted young people in Canada (see Gleason and Myers, 2014), their relationship with the environment has been largely overlooked. This has been due, at least in part, to a lack of sources.…”
Section: Contextualizing the Study: History Of Education And History mentioning
This article explores archival letters written by children and their parents to the Elementary Correspondence School in the Canadian province of British Columbia in the early 20th century. Parents, anxious for their children to be formally educated, expressed concern about their remote location in rugged parts of the province. Children focused their letter writing on their informal learning with, and on, the land. This history invites adults to recognize the varieties of ways that children, on their own terms, connect with the natural environment.
“… Examples of these texts include Myers, Caught ; Gleason, Normalizing the Ideal ; Marshall, Aux origines sociales de l ' État‐providence ; Comacchio, “ Nations Are Built of Babies ”; Smandych et al, eds., Dimensions of Childhood ; Sutherland, “‘We always had things to do’”; Strong‐Boag, The New Day Recalled ; Bullen, “Hidden Workers”; Rooke & Schnell, Discarding the Asylum ; Rooke & Schnell. eds., Studies in Childhood History ; Parr, ed., Childhood and Family in Canadian History . For a more detailed overview of the historiography of childhood in Canada, see Gleason & Myers, “History of Childhood in Canada.”…”
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“…For a more detailed overview of the historiography of childhood in Canada, see Gleason & Myers, “History of Childhood in Canada.”…”
This article examines the ways in which settler colonialism has shaped the scholarly literature on the history of childhood in post‐Confederation Canada. The first wave of scholarship on the history of young people in Canada, shaped by the disavowal and “social forgetting” of settler colonialism, focused on issues like the welfare state and child migration. Using the frameworks and methods of social history, these works ignored Indigenous childhoods and failed to consider non‐Indigenous Canadians as settlers. This approach became untenable after the publication of a number of studies of Indigenous children's experiences in day, industrial, and residential schools, and the remainder of the article considers the still uneven ways in which historians of childhood in Canada have discussed Indigenous and settler childhoods and engaged with the concepts of whiteness and settler colonialism.
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