By E. Lisa Panayotidis,Paul Stortz
As highbrow engines of the collage, professors carry huge authority and play an immense function in society. through nature in their career, they're brokers of highbrow tradition in Canada.
Historical Identities is a brand new choice of essays analyzing the background of the professoriate in Canada. Framing the quantity with the query, 'What used to be it wish to be a professor?' editors Paul Stortz and E. Lisa Panayotidis, in addition to an esteemed crew of Canadian historians, attempt to discover and examine variables and contexts - comparable to heritage, schooling, economics, politics, gender, and ethnicity - within the lives of lecturers all through Canada's historical past. The members take an in-depth method of themes similar to educational freedom, professors and the kingdom, school improvement, self-discipline development and educational cultures, faith, biography, gender and college better halves, pictures of professors, and historical past and adolescence experiences.
Including the simplest and latest severe study within the box of the social historical past of upper schooling and professors, Historical Identities examines primary and not easy themes, concerns, and arguments at the position and nature of intellectualism in Canada.
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