AbstractsEducation Research & Administration

The author of this study has for sorne time been interested in the status and history of education in Canada as a whole. As a teacher, he has been acutely aware of his ignorance of what goes on in the schools of other provinces, and has been curious to learn what external and historical forces have helped to shape whatever pattern of education Canada can be said to possess. Part of his ignorance was dispelled and some of his curiosity satisfied in doing graduate research on the history of education in Canada. Part of this research involved a consideration of American influences on Canadian education. From this arose the idea of a more extended study of such influences. The present thesis is the result. It was soon determined that no comprehensive or thorough study of this topic was extant. Despite quite heavy labours, the writer is ruefully forced to concede that the situation has not changed. This work is far from constituting a thorough or comprehensive study of American influences on Canadian education. Above all, it does not attempt, nor is it intended to be, an evaluative work. Its basic aim is to document the fact of widespread American influence. To this end, numerous studies, annual reports, surveys, scholarly inquiries and sound secondary works were consulted, many of them extending back to early days. Consideration of these sources is preceded by a brief general study [...]