Constructing National Identity in Canadian and Australian Classrooms

Stephen Jackson is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Sioux Falls, USA.

• Chapter One: Introduction.- Chapter Two: Society and Education in Mid-Twentieth Century Ontario and Victoria.- Chapter Three: From “Scrub Players Playing on a Vacant Lot” to the Big Leagues: Ontarian and Victorian Educational Constructions of the Imperial Relationship, 1937-1970.- Chapter Four: “The Ideology of all Democratic Nations:” World War II and the Rise of Religious Instruction in Ontario and Victoria.- Chapter Five: An identity quagmire: Ontarian and Victorian Religious Education After 1950.- Chapter Six: The Stereotypical Classroom: Moving towards Multiculturalism in Ontario and Victoria, 1945-1980.- Chapter Seven: Finding Historical Meaning Without Britain.- Chapter Eight: Conclusion.