R D Gidney

Biographic Data

ID	4089433
NAME	R D Gidney
GIVEN NAMES	R D
FAMILY NAME	Gidney
SIGNATURE	GIDNEY R D
AFFILIATIONS	Western University
VERIFIED	No
TOTAL WORKS	12
TOTAL CITATIONS	8
AUTHOR COUNT	12
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2012
H-INDEX	1

How Schools Worked: Public Education in English Canada, 1900-1940
R D Gidney, W P J MillarBOOKHow Schools Worked2012
Between the 1880s and the 1940s, children in English Canada encountered schools and school systems profoundly different from today's. In How Schools Worked, R.D. Gidney and W.P.J. Millar map the contours of that world, retrieving it from the obscurity created not only by the passage of time but by fundamental shifts in organization, pedagogical values, and beliefs about the role of public education. Moving beyond the rhetoric on school reform tha…
Branding the Classroom: Commercialism in Canadian Schools, 1920–1960
Catherine Gidney, R D GidneyARTICLEHistoire sociale2008Cited by: 1References: 2
Des années 1920 jusqu'au début des années 1960, un certain nombre d'entreprises commerciales ont publié des annonces publicitaires dans les revues professionnelles à l'intention des enseignants, offrant à ceux-ci un éventail d'aides didactiques, mais associées à des marques. Bien qu'il soit beaucoup question de commercialisation dans les écoles depuis une décennie, les débats contemporains sur la question ne font nullement mention des racines his…
From Hope to Harris: The Reshaping of Ontario's Schools
R D GidneyBOOKFrom Hope to Harris1999
In the late 1990s, Ontario's schools are in turmoil. Under the Harris government, sweeping changes in governance, finance, and curriculum have produced unprecedented conflict and deep divisions. From Hope to Harris sets these developments in a broad historical context.Beginning with a portrait of the school system in 1950, the year the Hope Commission offered its own blueprint for Ontario's schools, Gidney describes the expansion of the system, c…
Professional Gentlemen: The Professions in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
Nicole Neatby, R D Gidney et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1997
Professional Gentlemen: The Professions in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
John Taylor, John H Taylor et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Legal History1996
Journal Article Professional Gentlemen: The Professions in Nineteenth-Century Ontario Get access Gidney R.D. Millar W.P.J., eds., Professional Gentlemen: The Professions in Nineteenth-Century Ontario. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. xv, 505 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). John H. Taylor John H. Taylor Carleton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Vol…
Professional Gentlemen: The Professions in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
David G Burley, R D Gidney et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail1995Cited by: 6
What distinguishes professions from other occupations? How and why does the meaning of profession or professional work change over time? These are the questions that animate Professional Gentlemen, the first comprehensive account of the professions in nineteenth-century Ontario. Beginning with the three traditional 'learned professions, ' law, divinity, and medicine, Professional Gentlemen first examines their establishment in the Upper Canadian …
The Reorientation of Medical Education in Late Nineteenth-Century Ontario: The Proprietary Medical Schools and the Founding of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto
R D Gidney, W P J MillarARTICLEJournal of the History of…1994
R. D. GIDNEY, W. P. J. MILLAR; The Reorientation of Medical Education in Late Nineteenth-Century Ontario: The Proprietary Medical Schools and the Founding
Inventing Secondary Education: The Rise of the High School in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
Alison Prentice, R D Gidney et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1991Cited by: 1
From Voluntarism to State Schooling: The Creation of the Public School System in Ontario
Open AccessR D Gidney, W P J MillarARTICLECanadian Historical Review1985
Bureaucracy vs. Community? The Origins of Bureaucratic Procedure in the Upper Canadian School System
R D Gidney, D A LawrARTICLEJournal of Social History1980
R. D. Gidney, D. A. Lawr; Bureaucracy vs. Community? The Origins of Bureaucratic Procedure in the Upper Canadian School System, Journal of Social History
Egerton Ryerson and the Origins of the Ontario Secondary School
Open AccessR D Gidney, D A LawrARTICLECanadian Historical Review1979
ONE OF THE MORE NOTABLE ANOMALIES in Canadian educational history is the lack of attention paid to the development of nineteenth-century secondary education. The history of our universities is increasingly well documented, and the growth of the common schools has been a favourite subject in recent years. By international standards, however, Canadian historians have exhibited a remarkable indifference to those
New Designs for Learning: Highlights of the Reports of the Ontario Curriculum Institute, 1963-1966
R D Gidney, Brian BurnhamARTICLEBritish Journal of Educational…1968

New Designs for Learning: Highlights of the Reports of the Ontario Curriculum Institute, 1963-1966
R D Gidney, Brian BurnhamARTICLEBritish Journal of Educational…1968
Egerton Ryerson and the Origins of the Ontario Secondary School
Open AccessR D Gidney, D A LawrARTICLECanadian Historical Review1979
ONE OF THE MORE NOTABLE ANOMALIES in Canadian educational history is the lack of attention paid to the development of nineteenth-century secondary education. The history of our universities is increasingly well documented, and the growth of the common schools has been a favourite subject in recent years. By international standards, however, Canadian historians have exhibited a remarkable indifference to those
Bureaucracy vs. Community? The Origins of Bureaucratic Procedure in the Upper Canadian School System
R D Gidney, D A LawrARTICLEJournal of Social History1980
R. D. Gidney, D. A. Lawr; Bureaucracy vs. Community? The Origins of Bureaucratic Procedure in the Upper Canadian School System, Journal of Social History
From Voluntarism to State Schooling: The Creation of the Public School System in Ontario
Open AccessR D Gidney, W P J MillarARTICLECanadian Historical Review1985
Inventing Secondary Education: The Rise of the High School in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
Alison Prentice, R D Gidney et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1991Cited by: 1
The Reorientation of Medical Education in Late Nineteenth-Century Ontario: The Proprietary Medical Schools and the Founding of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto
R D Gidney, W P J MillarARTICLEJournal of the History of…1994
R. D. GIDNEY, W. P. J. MILLAR; The Reorientation of Medical Education in Late Nineteenth-Century Ontario: The Proprietary Medical Schools and the Founding
Professional Gentlemen: The Professions in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
David G Burley, R D Gidney et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail1995Cited by: 6
What distinguishes professions from other occupations? How and why does the meaning of profession or professional work change over time? These are the questions that animate Professional Gentlemen, the first comprehensive account of the professions in nineteenth-century Ontario. Beginning with the three traditional 'learned professions, ' law, divinity, and medicine, Professional Gentlemen first examines their establishment in the Upper Canadian …
Professional Gentlemen: The Professions in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
John Taylor, John H Taylor et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Legal History1996
Journal Article Professional Gentlemen: The Professions in Nineteenth-Century Ontario Get access Gidney R.D. Millar W.P.J., eds., Professional Gentlemen: The Professions in Nineteenth-Century Ontario. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. xv, 505 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). John H. Taylor John H. Taylor Carleton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Vol…
Professional Gentlemen: The Professions in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
Nicole Neatby, R D Gidney et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1997
From Hope to Harris: The Reshaping of Ontario's Schools
R D GidneyBOOKFrom Hope to Harris1999
In the late 1990s, Ontario's schools are in turmoil. Under the Harris government, sweeping changes in governance, finance, and curriculum have produced unprecedented conflict and deep divisions. From Hope to Harris sets these developments in a broad historical context.Beginning with a portrait of the school system in 1950, the year the Hope Commission offered its own blueprint for Ontario's schools, Gidney describes the expansion of the system, c…
Branding the Classroom: Commercialism in Canadian Schools, 1920–1960
Catherine Gidney, R D GidneyARTICLEHistoire sociale2008Cited by: 1References: 2
Des années 1920 jusqu'au début des années 1960, un certain nombre d'entreprises commerciales ont publié des annonces publicitaires dans les revues professionnelles à l'intention des enseignants, offrant à ceux-ci un éventail d'aides didactiques, mais associées à des marques. Bien qu'il soit beaucoup question de commercialisation dans les écoles depuis une décennie, les débats contemporains sur la question ne font nullement mention des racines his…
How Schools Worked: Public Education in English Canada, 1900-1940
R D Gidney, W P J MillarBOOKHow Schools Worked2012
Between the 1880s and the 1940s, children in English Canada encountered schools and school systems profoundly different from today's. In How Schools Worked, R.D. Gidney and W.P.J. Millar map the contours of that world, retrieving it from the obscurity created not only by the passage of time but by fundamental shifts in organization, pedagogical values, and beliefs about the role of public education. Moving beyond the rhetoric on school reform tha…