The School of Experience: A Patchwork Quilt of Informal Island Education, 1825-1965

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Dr. Edward MacDonald delivered the first lecture of the series on Tuesday, March 26 in the Faculty Lounge of UPEI’s SDU Main Building. Dr. MacDonald’s presentation, “The School of Experience: A Patchwork Quilt of Informal Island Education, 1825-1965”, focuses on the variety of learning opportunities for Islanders in the 19th and 20th centuries. While the Island’s formal education system evolved slowly and painfully across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, other, more informal modes of teaching and learning developed to answer Islanders’ educational needs. From the agricultural societies and mechanics’ institutes of the first half of the 20th century, through the farmer’s institutes that followed, to the adult education underpinning of the Antigonish Movement and the DIY ethos of community schools in the 1960s, these informal systems of education shared one characteristic: they emphasized various kinds of practical, applied learning for Islanders who found themselves outside the province’s structured educational system.

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The School of Experience: A Patchwork Quilt of Informal Island Education, 1825-1965
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Dr. Edward MacDonald delivered the first lecture of the series on Tuesday, March 26 in the Faculty Lounge of UPEI’s SDU Main Building. Dr. MacDonald’s presentation, “The School of Experience: A Patchwork Quilt of Informal Island Education, 1825-1965”, focuses on the variety of learning opportunities for Islanders in the 19th and 20th centuries. While the Island’s formal education system evolved slowly and painfully across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, other, more informal modes of teaching and learning developed to answer Islanders’ educational needs. From the agricultural societies and mechanics’ institutes of the first half of the 20th century, through the farmer’s institutes that followed, to the adult education underpinning of the Antigonish Movement and the DIY ethos of community schools in the 1960s, these informal systems of education shared one characteristic: they emphasized various kinds of practical, applied learning for Islanders who found themselves outside the province’s structured educational system.
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Robertson Library, University of Prince Edward Island
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Macdonald, G. Edward (Creator)
Date
2019-03-26
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MovingImage, Talk
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videorecording, 1 video recording
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upei50:6
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eng
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North America, 46.2623133,-63.147108
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