Ed 4361: Culminating Inquiry Project

Jordan Logan
Focus Point: To what extent has contemporary schooling been shaped by its
history?
Project: Write an essay answering the following question: What are the most significant
historical legacies for contemporary schooling? Must be maximum 4000 words.
Project Proposal

Focus inquiry question:

o The focus point will be centered on the assigned inquiry question: What are the
most significant historical legacies for contemporary schooling in Canada?

Brief description of product/format:

o My written assignment will begin with a detailed introduction of what I believe to
be important historical changes and legacies that have lead to contemporary
schooling in Canada. The assignment will then dive into the body that will be
focused on four main topics, with each topic consisting of 2-3 supporting
characteristics that have aided the main focus. Each characteristic will be
supported with both secondary and primary resources to strengthen the argument.
The assignment will be summarized with a quick recap of each main point and
their impact on the main inquiry question.
o These are the four main focus points:

Curriculum adjustments

Initial format and different courses included

Drive for classical education

Transition to student-centered classrooms and learning objectives

o Little Grey Book- Patrice Milewski pg. 321

Curriculum changes that altered the view of the

students and changed from the recipient of
knowledge to the subject and object of knowledge
(quote pg. 323)

School environment and its changes over time

Evolution of the school house to larger schools and its

implications on education.

Changes in funding for resources, teachers, and school

environment.

The residential school experience

Past effect on education

Current effect on education

Effects on education moving forward

The role of the teacher

Initial teacher role as a temporary position

Progression to a recognized profession

Over-burdening task of teaching and its implications

Bibliography with minimum of four secondary sources:

o Various articles will be used from our class text book:

Burke, S. Z., & Milewski, P. (2012). Schooling in transition: Readings in

Canadian history education. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Henry Smaller- Teachers and Schools in Early Ontario

Gidney and Lawr- Egerton Ryerson and the Origins of the Ontario
Secondary School

Neil Sutherland- The Triumph of Formalism: Elementary

Schooling in Vancouver from the 1920s to the 1960s

o Inferences on courses and curriculum, as well as their content will be taken from
inspector reports, Standard V course and Standard V publications from 1911.

https://moodle.uleth.ca/201603/pluginfile.php/150694/mod_resource/c
ontent/0/1911%20Standard%20V%20Exams.pdf

https://moodle.uleth.ca/201603/pluginfile.php/150693/mod_resource/c
ontent/0/1911%20Standard%20V%20Course%20.pdf

https://moodle.uleth.ca/201603/pluginfile.php/142191/mod_resource/c
ontent/0/1911%20Inspector%20Smith%20Report.pdf

o Examining the reconciliation report and future implications of residential schools

to continue to have on education.

Yundt, H. (2012, Feb 25). Reconciliation report calls for

education, healing; canadians need to learn the truth about
the legacy of the residential school system, commission
says. The Ottawa Citizen Retrieved from
http://search.proquest.com/docview/923676014?
accountid=12063

http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.alu.talonline.ca/docview/92
3676014?pq-origsite=summon

o Review and discuss the horrific impact that residential schools had on education
and the past and present effects on the students and education.

Barnes, R., Josefowitz, N., & Cole, E. (2006). Residential

schools: Impact on aboriginal students' academic and
cognitive development. Canadian Journal of School
Psychology, 21(1), 18-32. Retrieved from
http://search.proquest.com/docview/224371060?
accountid=12063

http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.alu.talonline.ca/docview/22
4371060?pq-origsite=summon

o Analyzing the role of the teacher in contemporary education and comparing it to

the phases of teacher progression throughout history

Henry Smaller- Teachers and Schools in Early Ontario

Riley, P., Gallant, A., & Newberry, M. (2013). Emotion and School:
Understanding How the Hidden Curriculum Influences
Relationships, Leadership, Teaching, and Learning. Bingley, UK:
Emerald Group Publishing Limited.