Mona Gleason
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 657100 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mona Gleason |
| PRENOMES | Mona |
| SOBRENOME | Gleason |
| ASSINATURA | GLEASON M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9276-8620 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Settler Stalling
In this article, we examine Indigenous responses to educational integration in British Columbia through the 1974 “Native Conferences” held by the Royal Commission on Family and Children’s Law. In the 1950s, Canadian policy on Indigenous education shifted from segregation to integration and by the late 1960s organizations such as Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs and the Native Indian Brotherhood rejected both approaches, demanding Indigenou…
The Archived Child
Using examples drawn from letters written by rural youth from the western Canadian province of British Columbia during the interwar period, I explore three interrelated interpretive strategies or dispositions for amplifying young peoples’ contributions to history: empathic inference, relational agency, and the axiom that children are heirs to the future. The letters are part of a larger archival collection of the province’s Elementary Corresponde…
Schooling the System
"Schooling the System: A History of Black Women Teachers. Funké Aladejebi." Canadian Historical Review, 103(1), pp. 162–163
“Knowing Something I Was Not Meant to Know”
In this Forum, I explore the discourse of Canadian doctors and educators regarding childhood sexuality, a topic laden with emotional import and moral hand-wringing, and some of the ways youngsters responded to it between 1900 and 1950. Historians have largely overlooked the “everydayness” of sexuality in childhood in Canada perhaps because the topic risks challenging long-standing associations between childhood and innocence. History, however, po…
Metaphor, materiality, and method
Delivered as one of the keynote addresses at the International Standing Committee on the History of Education (ISCHE) Conference held in Chicago in August 2016, this paper offers a broad review of how the body and embodiment have been incorporated into histories of education. Based on this historiography, I extend three “inspiring provocations” intended to set the stage for new questions, new theorising, and new methods regarding the body in the …
Families Without Schools
Using a collection of settler family letters to the Elementary Correspondence School (ECS) in British Columbia, the first provincial government–supported “schooling by mail” arrangement of its kind in Canada, I highlight the efforts of rural families to secure an education for their children in the period between the First and Second World Wars. The settler families who took advantage of correspondence schooling did so without the benefit of a pr…
The land is my school
This article explores archival letters written by children and their parents to the Elementary Correspondence School in the Canadian province of British Columbia in the early 20th century. Parents, anxious for their children to be formally educated, expressed concern about their remote location in rugged parts of the province. Children focused their letter writing on their informal learning with, and on, the land. This history invites adults to r…
Preschools for Science
Although not entirely neglected, the history of preschool reform and child study in Canada is understudied. Historians have documented the fate of “progressivism” in Canadian schooling through the 1930s along with postwar reforms that shaped the school system through the 1960s. But there are few case studies of child study centers and laboratory schools in Canada, despite their popularity in the latter half of the twentieth century. Histories of …
Between Education and Memory
Despite contemporary concerns regarding the state of Canadian children's health, historians in Canada have yet to fully explore how conventional medical experts and educators thought about, and safeguarded, children's health. This paper explores the interplay between two sources of information regarding the provision of healthy children between 1900 and the end of the Second World War in the English Canadian context: curricular messages regarding…
In Search of History’s Child
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
In Search of History's Child
In Search of History's Child Mona Gleason (bio) Young people have long been an absent presence in the history of Canada. As my colleagues in this forum section suggest, this is a state of affairs not confined to the discipline of history. Social history, developed in the 1960s to highlight the perspectives of those traditionally excluded from scholarship, including women, workers, immigrants, and racialized "others," had much to say about childre…
From “Disgraceful Carelessness” to “Intelligent Precaution
Highlighting how medical professionals in English Canada understood accidents in childhood, this article explores the emergence of the idea of a “public child” throughout the course of the twentieth century. It asks how shifts in attitudes toward public health, domesticity, race, and gender shaped ideas about children, their safety, and their protection. The medicalized construction of a public child helped foster a more recognizable sense of com…
Disciplining the Student Body
In the spring of 1957, journalist Sidney Katz wrote a story for Maclean's Magazine entitled "The Lost Children of British Columbia" which detailed the disturbing events leading up to the forcible removal of 100 Doukhobor children from their New Denver homes by Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers. The children, all between the ages of seven and fourteen, were taken to the New Denver Dormitory, located approximately 260 miles northeast of…
Psychology and the Construction of the 'Normal' Family in Postwar Canada, 1945-60
L'ouvrage « Psychology and the Construction of the Normal Family in Postwar canada, 1945-1960 » se penche sur la facon dont le discours psychologique a edifie les notions entourant la famille normale de l'apres-guerre au Canada. Bien que les psychologues s'en defendent, l'A. soutient que leurs discussions sur ce qui constituait la famille normale etaient modelees par leurs valeurs sociales et non par de soi-disant preoccupations scientifiques obj…
Disciplining the Student Body
In the spring of 1957, journalist Sidney Katz wrote a story for Maclean's Magazine entitled "The Lost Children of British Columbia" which detailed the disturbing events leading up to the forcible removal of 100 Doukhobor children from their New Denver homes by Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers. The children, all between the ages of seven and fourteen, were taken to the New Denver Dormitory, located approximately 260 miles northeast of…
Metaphor, materiality, and method
Delivered as one of the keynote addresses at the International Standing Committee on the History of Education (ISCHE) Conference held in Chicago in August 2016, this paper offers a broad review of how the body and embodiment have been incorporated into histories of education. Based on this historiography, I extend three “inspiring provocations” intended to set the stage for new questions, new theorising, and new methods regarding the body in the …
The land is my school
This article explores archival letters written by children and their parents to the Elementary Correspondence School in the Canadian province of British Columbia in the early 20th century. Parents, anxious for their children to be formally educated, expressed concern about their remote location in rugged parts of the province. Children focused their letter writing on their informal learning with, and on, the land. This history invites adults to r…
In Search of History's Child
In Search of History's Child Mona Gleason (bio) Young people have long been an absent presence in the history of Canada. As my colleagues in this forum section suggest, this is a state of affairs not confined to the discipline of history. Social history, developed in the 1960s to highlight the perspectives of those traditionally excluded from scholarship, including women, workers, immigrants, and racialized "others," had much to say about childre…
Families Without Schools
Using a collection of settler family letters to the Elementary Correspondence School (ECS) in British Columbia, the first provincial government–supported “schooling by mail” arrangement of its kind in Canada, I highlight the efforts of rural families to secure an education for their children in the period between the First and Second World Wars. The settler families who took advantage of correspondence schooling did so without the benefit of a pr…
In Search of History’s Child
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Psychology and the Construction of the 'Normal' Family in Postwar Canada, 1945-60
L'ouvrage « Psychology and the Construction of the Normal Family in Postwar canada, 1945-1960 » se penche sur la facon dont le discours psychologique a edifie les notions entourant la famille normale de l'apres-guerre au Canada. Bien que les psychologues s'en defendent, l'A. soutient que leurs discussions sur ce qui constituait la famille normale etaient modelees par leurs valeurs sociales et non par de soi-disant preoccupations scientifiques obj…
Disciplining the Student Body
In the spring of 1957, journalist Sidney Katz wrote a story for Maclean's Magazine entitled "The Lost Children of British Columbia" which detailed the disturbing events leading up to the forcible removal of 100 Doukhobor children from their New Denver homes by Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers. The children, all between the ages of seven and fourteen, were taken to the New Denver Dormitory, located approximately 260 miles northeast of…
From “Disgraceful Carelessness” to “Intelligent Precaution
Highlighting how medical professionals in English Canada understood accidents in childhood, this article explores the emergence of the idea of a “public child” throughout the course of the twentieth century. It asks how shifts in attitudes toward public health, domesticity, race, and gender shaped ideas about children, their safety, and their protection. The medicalized construction of a public child helped foster a more recognizable sense of com…
Between Education and Memory
Despite contemporary concerns regarding the state of Canadian children's health, historians in Canada have yet to fully explore how conventional medical experts and educators thought about, and safeguarded, children's health. This paper explores the interplay between two sources of information regarding the provision of healthy children between 1900 and the end of the Second World War in the English Canadian context: curricular messages regarding…
In Search of History’s Child
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
In Search of History's Child
In Search of History's Child Mona Gleason (bio) Young people have long been an absent presence in the history of Canada. As my colleagues in this forum section suggest, this is a state of affairs not confined to the discipline of history. Social history, developed in the 1960s to highlight the perspectives of those traditionally excluded from scholarship, including women, workers, immigrants, and racialized "others," had much to say about childre…
Preschools for Science
Although not entirely neglected, the history of preschool reform and child study in Canada is understudied. Historians have documented the fate of “progressivism” in Canadian schooling through the 1930s along with postwar reforms that shaped the school system through the 1960s. But there are few case studies of child study centers and laboratory schools in Canada, despite their popularity in the latter half of the twentieth century. Histories of …
The land is my school
This article explores archival letters written by children and their parents to the Elementary Correspondence School in the Canadian province of British Columbia in the early 20th century. Parents, anxious for their children to be formally educated, expressed concern about their remote location in rugged parts of the province. Children focused their letter writing on their informal learning with, and on, the land. This history invites adults to r…
“Knowing Something I Was Not Meant to Know”
In this Forum, I explore the discourse of Canadian doctors and educators regarding childhood sexuality, a topic laden with emotional import and moral hand-wringing, and some of the ways youngsters responded to it between 1900 and 1950. Historians have largely overlooked the “everydayness” of sexuality in childhood in Canada perhaps because the topic risks challenging long-standing associations between childhood and innocence. History, however, po…
Metaphor, materiality, and method
Delivered as one of the keynote addresses at the International Standing Committee on the History of Education (ISCHE) Conference held in Chicago in August 2016, this paper offers a broad review of how the body and embodiment have been incorporated into histories of education. Based on this historiography, I extend three “inspiring provocations” intended to set the stage for new questions, new theorising, and new methods regarding the body in the …
Families Without Schools
Using a collection of settler family letters to the Elementary Correspondence School (ECS) in British Columbia, the first provincial government–supported “schooling by mail” arrangement of its kind in Canada, I highlight the efforts of rural families to secure an education for their children in the period between the First and Second World Wars. The settler families who took advantage of correspondence schooling did so without the benefit of a pr…
Schooling the System
"Schooling the System: A History of Black Women Teachers. Funké Aladejebi." Canadian Historical Review, 103(1), pp. 162–163
The Archived Child
Using examples drawn from letters written by rural youth from the western Canadian province of British Columbia during the interwar period, I explore three interrelated interpretive strategies or dispositions for amplifying young peoples’ contributions to history: empathic inference, relational agency, and the axiom that children are heirs to the future. The letters are part of a larger archival collection of the province’s Elementary Corresponde…
Settler Stalling
In this article, we examine Indigenous responses to educational integration in British Columbia through the 1974 “Native Conferences” held by the Royal Commission on Family and Children’s Law. In the 1950s, Canadian policy on Indigenous education shifted from segregation to integration and by the late 1960s organizations such as Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs and the Native Indian Brotherhood rejected both approaches, demanding Indigenou…
Canadian Identity and History (11 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Gender Studies (7 obras) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (7 obras) · History (6 obras) · Psychology (5 obras) · Aesthetics (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (3 obras)