Adult Literacy Education on the Canadian Frontier.

Walter, Pierre

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ERIC Number: EJ665625

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Publication Date: 2003

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Adult Literacy Education on the Canadian Frontier.

Walter, Pierre

Adult Basic Education, v13 n1 p3-18 Spr 2003

Canada's Frontier College began in 1899 to bring literacy and citizenship education to immigrant men; in the 1920s it offered university education. However, its early history embodied a legacy of nativism, anticommunism, racism, and sexism as it attempted to assimilate adult literacy learners into Anglo-Canadian sociocultural norms. (Contains 19 references.) (SK)

Descriptors: Acculturation, Canada Natives, College Programs, Females, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Immigrants, Labor Education, Literacy Education

Publication Type: Historical Materials; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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