Les écoles normales au Québec

In Quebec, many discussions about the eventual abolition of normals schools are illustrating many important questions, one of them being the State involment and control over education and his participation in the financing of teacher training. This article investigates how the organization of teacher training was oriented and divided between two contradictory and distinct projects. On one side, a centralized project with three normal school erected in big cities, and called Stated Normal School, and on the other side, a myriad of small institutions under the control of religious order, and erected in little communities all over the territory of the Quebec province. At the end of the 19th century, an important debate (the so-called Verreau Laflèche quarrel) took place about the future of normal schools. We will see that from that quarrel and over, the province of Quebec will organize teacher training on new bases. The question of relation between Church and State get oriented in a way that gives to the religious order the responsibility of training women teacher. For lay men, a certain tolerance and generosity gives place to important State financing in what seems a compromise where people in favor and against State control agree at least for the preparation of the female teacher under the responsibility of nuns

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