Professor
Department of Educational Studies (EDST)
Dr. Gleason is an historian of education and of children and childhood. Through her many publications, she has demonstrated that helping professionals’ efforts to safeguard the interests of youngsters and families, however well meaning, often failed when deeper social inequalities were denied or simply continued unabated. This failure to address systemic inequalities in children’s lives continues to the present day.
Contributions:
Gleason, M. (1999) Normalizing the Ideal: Psychology, Schooling and the Family in Postwar Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Gleason, M. (2013) Small Matters: Canadian Children in Sickness and Health 1900 to 1940. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Gleason, M. (2012). “Navigating the Pedagogy of Failure: Medicine, Education and the Disabled Child in English Canada, 1900 to 1945.” In Graham Allan and Nathaniel Lauster (Eds). The End of Children? Changing Trends in Childbearing and Childhood. Vancouver: UBC Press.
Gleason, M., Perry, A., and Myers, T. (Eds). (2011). Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women’s History. 6th Edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
Gleason, M. (2001). “Disciplining the Student Body: Schooling and the Construction of Canadian Children’s Bodies, 1930 to 1960.” History of Education Quarterly 41 (2): 189-215.
Keywords:
History of education; History of children; Critical youth studies; Gender and education.
mona.gleason@ubc.ca
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