Education

EDUCATION 439 au Quebec Ie phenomene important de la paroisse qui a fait Ie peuple canadien-fran~ais. La bibliographie nous fournit un inventaire de tout ce qui a ete ecrit sur cet important sujet. L'introduction contient aussi d'interessantes consideration sur l'histoire locale. Parmi les traductions en fram;ais de livres anglais, signalons La Tragedie des Indiens du Canada (Eds du Jour, 228, $3.50) que Raymond Gagne et Jacques Vallee ont tirre de The Unjust Society: The Tragedy of Canada's Indians de Harold Cardinal. « La lutte, ecrit un des traducteurs , Jacques Vallee, dans la preface, ne semble pas pres de finir pour ces Indiens dont les Quebecois pourtant engages dans une periode de reveil collectif connaissent bien malla condition. Tout au long de sa denonciation du Livre blanc, Cardinal, avec passion et non sans force, dit la brutale verite de cette situation ». (JEAN-CHARLES BONENFANT) EDUCATION In both the past two years we have indicated to readers of this section that the task of reviewing the steadily increasing number of books about Canadian education would shortly be assumed by the journal which the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education was On the point of establishing, and in consequence that so far as the subject of education was concerned 'Letters in Canada' would henceforth confine its attention to works of outstanding quality and of clear significance as contributions to the understanding of Canada's intellectual and cultural development. The first issue of the Society's journal, which is called STOA, appeared in November 1971, the second issue in May 1972. But for reasons related to the financial problems of launching a new journal the editors have not found it possible to include in either of these issues a systematic review of the books on Canadian education published in 1971. This has necessitated a change in our plan for these pages, which was to deal with two works only, L.K. Shook's Catholic Post-Secondary Education in English-Speaking Canada: A History and W.G. Fleming's Ontario's Educative Society. In the interests of maintaining between UTQ and STOA a reasonably complete record of publications in this field since 1956 when the education section in 'Letters in Canada' commenced, we shall begin by commenting briefly on a half-dozen other 1971 publications in this field. Two studies have been published on the problems of education for the 440 LE'ITERS IN CANADA professions, a subject of great importance in an era when the supplying of trained manpower is increasingly viewed as the One unchallengeable function of the universities but one which except in the context of institutional history (R.A. Preston, Canada's R.M.C.: The History af the Royal Military College, 1969; F.E. Gattinger, A Century of Challenge: A History of the Ontario Veterinary College, 1962) has received little attention in Canada. Max von Zur-Muehlen's Business Education and Faculty at Canadian Universities (Economic Council of Canada, xxi, 269, $3.25) is questionnaire-based and concentrates on developments since 1960 - there is a brief but adequate historical introduction. Very detailed data are prOvided on the number, citizenship, teaching, research, and consulting activities of faculty and on the programmes offered at both graduate and undergraduate levels to both full and part-time students. One suspects that Zur-Muehlen's conclusion (xii) would be found to apply to many other professional fields: 'The accomplishments of Canadian business schools during the last decade deserve recognition in spite of serious omissions and lack of imagination and initiative on the part of both faculty and university administration. DUring the 1960s, expansion of the business faculty was the outstanding feature of university business education in Canada. In the next decade the business schools might well concentrate on qualitative improvement in their faculty, research activities, and teaching programs: An even more detailed study and one which concerns itself with the development of education for the profession since its introduction at the beginning of the century and with its impact On Canadian life both in the past and in the present is George A. Garrett's Forestry Education in Canada (Canadian Institute of Forestry, Box 5000, Macdonald...