American Doctoral Dissertations on Education in Canada

American Doctoral Dissertations on Education in Canada Walter Crosby Eells During the present century more than 130,000 doctoral dissertations have been accepted by American universities. More than 15,000 of these have been in the field of education. As would be expected, most of the latter have been concerned with various phases of education in the United States, but more than one thousand have dealt with education in foreign countries.' The main purpose of this article is to list the authors, titles, institutions, and dates of the 111 dissertations which have been written on education in Canada during the past forty years. The dissertations can be classified by date of acceptance: 1908 1 1920 1 1930 2 1940 3 1910 1 1921 1 1931 2 1941 1 1912 1 1922 0 1932 2 1942 4 1913 1 1923 3 1933 0 1943 4 1917 1 1924 0 1934 0 1944 5 1918 1 1925 2 1935 2 1945 1 1919 2 1926 0 1936 3 1946 1 1927 1 1937 3 1947 8 1928 0 1938 0 1948 3 1929 1 1939 1 1949 9 1950 14 1951 9 1952 7 1953 7 1954 3 More than half of these dissertations have beeu accepted during the past eight years, and more have been completed since 1950 than in the decade from 1940 to 1950. These facts reflect not only the great increase in students from Canada studying in the United States in the past few years,' but also, perhaps, a greater interest in Canadian education on the part of American candidates for the doctorate in the field of education. Two-thirds of the 111 dissertations were written at five American universities; more than one-third of them were submitted at Columbia: 249 250 VVALTER CROSBY EELLS Universitv of America un.1lVel:sitiles. 1 each It is of some interest to observe the in these dissertations. No cornplete titles in many cases are not SUlnCJLenuy tion The divisions are: of 38 9 9 9 8 5 4 4 3 3 2 2 2 2 11 111 considered the it may be assumed that the mal]0I1ty were Canadian citizens t'i-T'll"hyii.... n in American returned to pO~)ltlIDnS in their own their educational careers in the United States. A after "'''''1'','::>1''11'",0 their have taken up in Canadian institutions. This educational of the most in both directions is commendable and should be "''I''\,.,·.....n1..~ A feature is the number of women included in the group, no less than or 20 per cent. In the United States in the 12 per cent of the doc:toraI ttlssc~rultion8 have been written women. The form of publi(~atilon of doctoral dls:serl:atiIDns has varied in United States between institutions and at different Some of the dissertations have been in their abstracts have been of and some exist in in the libraries of the various institutions. In recent years an number of universities have made for the of their dis- AMERICAN DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 251 sertations at nominal cost by the microfilm process. Probably more than half of the dissertations listed below have been published in whole or in part. Information concerning the form and availability of any particular dissertation may be secured by writing to the library of the institution at which it was accepted. Unfortunately there is no one single and reliable source which lists alI American doctoral dissertations. In the preparation of this list, titles of alI dissertations in education and related fields have been examined in Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities (New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1934-54, 21 vols.); Bibliography of Research Studies in Education (Washington: U. S. Office of Education, 1929-41, 13 vols. and continued in manuscript to 1952); W. S. Monroe's Titles of Masters' and Doctors' Theses in Education Accepted by American Colieges and Universities (Urbana: University of Illinois, 1920-28, 6 vols.); American Doctoral Dissertations Printed (Washington: Library of Congress, 1912-38, 27 vols.); and many other specialized bibliographies , catalogues, and abstracts published by individnal institutions and organizations. The following list of doctoral dissertations on Canadian education is presented with name of author, institution at which...