Stand for Your Lessons: Educational Change and Cultural Reaction

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PEI historian and folklorist John Cousins presented the second lecture in the series, entitled “Stand for Your Lessons: Educational Change and Cultural Reaction.” This illustrated talk was on April 30 from 7:00 to 8:30 pm in the Eptek Centre in Summerside.

The period between 1960 and the early 1970s brought the most dramatic change in Island education since the creation of the one-room district schools in the early 1850s. The consolidation of the public schools saw the disappearance of a major element in Island culture. This presentation will examine the impact of that change on rural Island communities, on their families and on the children who were “consolidated.” Further, a main question remains to be examined: what lessons can be learned by using prior experience as a guide to evaluate how elements of culture may react during dramatic, and sometimes traumatic, change?

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Title
Stand for Your Lessons: Educational Change and Cultural Reaction
Creator
Subject
Education, Education--Prince Edward Island
Description
PEI historian and folklorist John Cousins presented the second lecture in the series, entitled “Stand for Your Lessons: Educational Change and Cultural Reaction.” This illustrated talk was on April 30 from 7:00 to 8:30 pm in the Eptek Centre in Summerside. The period between 1960 and the early 1970s brought the most dramatic change in Island education since the creation of the one-room district schools in the early 1850s. The consolidation of the public schools saw the disappearance of a major element in Island culture. This presentation will examine the impact of that change on rural Island communities, on their families and on the children who were “consolidated.” Further, a main question remains to be examined: what lessons can be learned by using prior experience as a guide to evaluate how elements of culture may react during dramatic, and sometimes traumatic, change?
Publisher
University of Prince Edward Island
Contributor
Cousins, John (Creator)
Date
2019-04-30
Type
MovingImage, Talk
Format
videorecording, 1 hour, 16 minutes
Identifier
upei50:19
Source
Language
eng
Relation
Coverage
Prince Edward Island, North America
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