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Milewski, Patrice – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2022
Using the example of the 1937 Ontario elementary school reforms, this article will make the case for considering pedagogical knowledge as a distinct object in the history of education. In this context, pedagogical knowledge refers to the conceptual and normative aspects of teaching and learning that seek to inform the decision-making of the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Change, Elementary Schools, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Milewski, Patrice; Ydesen, Christian; Andreasen, Karen E. – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2019
This article compares and contrasts the use of mental testing and the formation of educational streaming in Denmark and Ontario during the interwar years. In this sense, the article adds nuances to the meaning of internationalism as well as contributing to our knowledge about how ideas of testing practices circulated among countries and…
Descriptors: Barriers, Foreign Countries, International Education, Correlation
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Milewski, Patrice – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2014
This article takes as its inspiration Ian Grosvenor's conjectural essay presented for the symposium "Historiography of the Future: Looking Back to the Future" held at the International Standing Conference for History of Education (ISCHE) 33 in July 2011 in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. It contributes to a sensory history of schooling by…
Descriptors: Hygiene, Sanitation, Medical Education, Epistemology
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Milewski, Patrice – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2012
Following the end of World War I, the Ontario Department of Education initiated a series of reforms aimed at both elementary and secondary schooling. This article examines the reforms that were made to elementary school curriculum and pedagogy. These were initiated within the context of a call for a general reconstruction of education and society…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, War, Educational Change, Human Capital
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Milewski, Patrice – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2010
This paper analyses the science of education that was formed in Ontario between the years 1910 and 1934. It is substantiated through the use of archival material such as curriculum documents, statutes, annual reports, the published proceedings of the Ontario Educational Association (OEA) and a close reading of the "Science of Education"…
Descriptors: Educational History, Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Teaching Methods
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Milewski, Patrice – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2008
Teachers' institutes for public elementary school teachers in Ontario began to be implemented in the middle of the nineteenth century as a result of the efforts of Egerton Ryerson Superintendent of Schools for Canada West as Ontario was then known. They were based on similar practices that Ryerson had observed on an educational tour in 1845 during…
Descriptors: State Officials, Teacher Attendance, Foreign Countries, Teacher Certification