Foreign Influences on Curriculum in Canada
Image source: https://www.panelphysician.ca/blog/find-the-best-elementary-schools-in-canada Foreign Influences on Curriculum and Curriculum Policy Making in Canada (Comment on Tomkins’s article) Historical context: This article was written by Tomkins in the 80s and describes some of the foreign influences that may have contributed to the Canadian Curriculum for over three centuries. Tomkins explains that Canadian education has mostly been influenced by the USA, UK and Europe and was stable/conservative until that time. Over 300 years ago, Jesuits brought education to Canada and then became for political purposes highly centralized. E. Ryerson, considered by some the father of Canadian curriculum design it mirroring educational systems in Europe, UK and USA. Meilleur and Chauveau (French Canadians who had studied Medicine in the USA), afraid of anglicization and secularization, incorporated French influences in the curriculum, such as science a...