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Including Women: The Establishment and Integration of Canadian Women's History into Toronto Ontario Classrooms 1968 - 1993Fine, Rose http://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/33997/1/Fine-Meyer_Rose_201211_PhD_thesis.pdfPublisher: Univerty of Toronto Date Written: 01/07/2012 Year Published: 2012 Pages: 303 Resource Type: Book Abstract: - Social movement activism throughout the 1960s and 1970s provided space for feminist concerns in a variety of arenas. Women's movement activism and women's scholarship in history challenged the ways in which women’s experiences had been marginalized or omitted in school history programs and curricula. Women's organizations developed and broadened networks, created and published resources, and lobbied governments and institutions. Their widespread activism spilled into a range of educational circles and influenced history teachers in altering curricula to include women in course materials.Advocating for women, on a curricular or professional development level, however, was complicated because of entrenched neo-liberal systems in place within education institutions. Although the Ontario Ministry of Education and the Toronto Board of Education demonstrated clear support for a wide range of gender equity-based initiatives, they committed to implementing a 'piecemeal' approach to curricular change. The fundamental work to include women in history curricula relied heavily on grassroots networks that allowed for women’s experiences to leak into classrooms, and were responsible for bringing women’s voices into the history curricula. This study explores the initiatives of the Toronto Board of Education from 1968-1993, with particular analysis of women's committees,teacher/librarians in resource centers, Affirmative Action representatives, individual teachers and administrators. Within the broader public sphere, the contributions of concerned parents, activists, small independent publishers, educational reformers, political leaders and women's history organizations lent their voices to ideas about how the inclusion of women in history curricula should take shape in Toronto schools. |
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