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Blackboards and Briefcases
Edited by Phillip McCann
Price: CDN$19.95
ISBN: 0-920502-26-1
Published by Jesperson Press in 1982
303 Pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches
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Book Description
Since Confederation in 1949, Newfoundland education has undergone a revolution. The one-room school, the typical instiuation of the old system, has given way to a network of well-equiped primary, elementary and high schools, staffed by well-qualified teachers. Memorial has grown from a small college to one of the largest universities in Canada. Schools and
colleges of trades and technology and other educational and cultural facilities have multiplied. The story of this transformation has been told by Senator F.W. Rowe, one of the contributors to this volume, in his Education and Culture in Newfoundland. The present book has a different purpose.
It attempts to give the human side of the story by means of the reminiscences of educators at all levels of the system. Most of the contributors gave recorded interviews; a few wrote the accounts themselves. Nearly all were retired, which
means that some of the memories go back as far as 1930, thus covering a half-century which witnessed far-reaching
changes in the island's educational history.
About the Author
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