Patrice Milewski

Biographic Data

ID4449473
NAMEPatrice Milewski
GIVEN NAMESPatrice
FAMILY NAMEMilewski
SIGNATUREMILEWSKI P
AFFILIATIONSLaurentian University
ORCID0000-0003-3517-9015
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Rationalism and empiricism

    Patrice MilewskiARTICLEPaedagogica Historica2025

  • The Ontario Educational Association

    Patrice Milewski, Annmarie ValdesARTICLEPaedagogica Historica2023

    Originally founded in 1861 as the Teachers’ Association of Canada West (TACW), the Ontario Educational Association (OEA) was a fixture on the education scene in Ontario for one hundred twenty-five years until its dissolution on November 28, 1985. This article traces the early development and maturation of the OEA to focus on its involvement in curriculum reform undertaken by Liberal and Progressive Conservative governments in the early twentieth …

  • Pedagogical knowledge as a distinct object in the history of education

    Patrice MilewskiARTICLEPaedagogica Historica2020

    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 teacher in relation to children (childhood), teaching, and learning. It refers to the knowledge that define…

  • Mental testing and educational streaming in Ontario and Denmark in the early twentieth century

    Patrice Milewski, Christian Ydesen et al.ARTICLEPaedagogica Historica2019

    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 continents. One way ideas and practices circulated was via informal networks promoted by the education travelle…

  • Medico-science and school hygiene

    Patrice MilewskiARTICLEPaedagogica Historica2013Cited by: 3

    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 examining how the problematisation of schoolchildren’s eyesight in school hygiene manuals noted by Grosvenor was, to…

  • Positivism and post-World War I elementary school reform in Ontario

    Patrice MilewskiARTICLEPaedagogica Historica2012Cited by: 1

    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 as a response to the tragic consequences of World War I. They were also based on a series of denuncia…

  • The scientisation of schooling in Ontario, 1910–1934

    Patrice MilewskiARTICLEPaedagogica Historica2009Cited by: 1

    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 manual published in 1915. This study examines how a science of education was defined discursively and put into op…

  • Teachers’ institutes in late nineteenth‐century Ontario

    Patrice MilewskiARTICLEPaedagogica Historica2008

    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 which he visited the United States, the British Isles and a number of western European countries inc…