Sean Carleton’s Lessons in Legitimacy: Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia

Authors

  • Adele Perry
  • Catherine Ellis
  • Kristine Alexander
  • Bridget Stirling
  • Sean Carleton

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.no222.200007

Keywords:

schooling, children, labour force, residential schools, colonialism

Abstract

This forum brings together a group of Canadian scholars to discuss Sean Carleton’s Lessons in Legitimacy: Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2022)

Author Biographies

Adele Perry

Adele Perry is a settler historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Canada. She has taught at the University of Manitoba since 2000, where she directs the Centre for Human Rights Research.  

Catherine Ellis

Catherine Ellis is an associate professor and settler scholar in the Department of History at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). Her historical research focuses on modern Britain, particularly the impact of youth cultures and young voters on British politics. In 2020–21, she co-chaired the Standing Strong Task Force, which addressed the history and legacies of her university’s former namesake, Egerton Ryerson, whose ideas framed Canada’s first public school systems. Ellis is engaged in the implementation of the task force’s recommendations at TMU and recently contributed to the Palgrave Handbook on Rethinking Colonial Commemorations (2023).

Kristine Alexander

Kristine Alexander teaches in the history department at the University of Lethbridge. Her research focuses on the entwined histories of childhood and colonialism, and her publications include Small Stories of War: Children, Youth, and Conflict in Canada and Beyond (MQUP, 2023), A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age (Bloomsbury, 2022), and Guiding Modern Girls: Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s (UBC Press, 2017)

Bridget Stirling

Bridget Stirling is a PhD candidate in educational policy studies at the University of Alberta. Her doctoral research examines political discourses of childhood in Alberta’s Inspiring Education report and the subsequent period of education reform. She is particularly interested in futurity, nostalgia, and the temporal displacement of childhood

Sean Carleton

Sean Carleton is an associate professor in the departments of history and Indigenous studies at the University of Manitoba.

Cover image featuring two colour portraits. Each photograph features a woman covered in intricately stitched feathers and elaborately beaded jewelry that spill over their figures, almost completely obscuring their faces.

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Published

25-10-2024

Issue

No. 222 (2024): Summer

Section

Forum