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How does one become a professional? This interdisciplinary collection offers new insights into that fundamental question. Employing a wide variety of approaches and methodologies, the original and thematically linked essays discuss such problematic issues as the most appropriate site for professional education, the proper focus and content of the initial and on-going preparation of professionals, and the nature of both continuity and change in professional education. In the process, they raise challenging questions about the development of professional education in Canada and elsewhere from the early 19th century to the present day, in fields as diverse as the health sciences, law, engineering, social work, theology, and university teaching. An essential resource for those studying the professions, this book will also appeal to practitioners, professional associations, administrators, and faculty in professional schools, and to all those interested in the past, present, and future state of their professions.
Published in English.
Ruby Heap is a professor of history at the University of Ottawa, whose teaching and research focus on the history of women in the professions and the history of education in Canada.
Wyn Millar is an independent scholar living in London, Ontario, In 1989 she co-founded the journal Historical Studies in Education, for which she is both co-editor and managing editor.
Elizabeth Smyth is an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum Teaching and Learning at the OISE. Among her recent works is the co-edited Wisdom Raises Her Voice: The Sisters of St. Joseph of Toronto Celebrate 150 Years. Dr Smyth is a founding member of the Women and Professional Education Network.
Introduction: The Context of Learning to Practise
Chapter 1
Bob Gidney. “Madame How” and “Lady Why”: Learning to Practise in Historical Perspective
Chapter 2
William Westfall. “Some Practical Acquaintance with Parochial Duties”: Learning and Practice in the Diocese of Toronto in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 3
Cathy James. Professional Enactments: Practical Training and the Education of Social Workers in Toronto, 1914–1929
Chapter 4
Linda J. Quiney. “A Certain Education”: Wartime Voluntary Nursing and the Challenge to the Professional Ideal, 1914–22
Chapter 5
Ruth Compton Brouwer. Learning and Teaching about Birth Control in 1930s India: The Cautious Activism of Dr. Belle Choné Oliver and the Christian Medical Association of India
Chapter 6
Wyn Millar, Ruby Heap, and Bob Gidney. Degrees of Difference: The Students in Three Professional Schools at the University of Toronto, 1910 to the 1950s
Chapter 7
Ruby Heap and Ellen Scheinberg. “Just One of the Gang”: Women at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, 1939–50
Chapter 8
Alison Prentice. Women Becoming Professional Scholars: Historians and Physicists
Chapter 9
Jean McKenzie Leiper. Gender, Class, and Legal Education: Standing in the Shadow of the Learned Gentleman
Chapter 10
Tracey L. Adams. Education and the Quest for Professional Status: The Case of Ontario’s Dental Hygienists
Author Bios
Index