AbstractsWomens Studies

Vocational training facilities for women in Montreal.

by Mabel. Boulkind




Institution: McGill University
Department: Department of Education.
Degree: MA.
Year: 1938
Keywords: Vocational education  – Canada.; Women  – Education  – Canada.
Record ID: 1499189
Full text PDF: http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/thesisfile131774.pdf


Abstract

Today every citizen secures some minimum of education; and the majority of parents regard the schooling of their children as a matter to be taken for granted. The school leaving age, of course, varies with the standards of the community and its laws. But all public school students, particularly of adolescent age, must sooner or later consider this academic work partly as the training for some specific occupation, career, or job. The important question before the community today, then, is a classification of the relationships between the educations we give and the vocations we seek. Such a problem involves an understanding of the primary school system and its adequacy; the relation of elementary to secondary and higher types of education; the facilities for technical and commercial training, the demands of current and future industry, and the present methods (and lack of them) by which young persons pass from school to employment. [...]