Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. PART I. 'Elevate the Home': Changing Attitudes to Children in English-Speaking Canada, 1870-1900
6. 1. 'A Good Home and Kind Treatment': Late-Nineteenth-Century English-Canadian Attitudes to Children and Child-Rearing 3
7. 2. 'Multitudes Better Equipped ... than Their Fathers': A New Childhood for a ~ New Society 13
8. PART II. 'To Create a Strong and Healthy Race': Children in the Public Health Movement, 1880-1920
9. 3. 'Our Whole Aim Is Prevention': Public Health in the Schools, 1880-1914 39
10. 4. 'Education . .. Carried on Principally in the Home': The Campaign to Reduce Infant Mortality, 1895-1920 56
11. 5. 'Invariably the Race Levels Down': Mental Hygiene and Canadian Children 71
12. 6. 'How Can We Reach Them?': Making Child Health a Nation-Wide Enterprise 79
13. PART III. 'Remove the Young from Schools of Crime': Transforming the Treatment of Juvenile Delinquents, 1885-1925
14. 7. From Reformatory to Family Home: Late-Nineteenth-Century Young Offenders in the Context of Changing Theory and Prevailing Practice 91
15. 8. Towards 'Intelligent and Progressive Legislation for the Prevention of Crime': Preparing the Way for the Juvenile Delinquents Act, 1886-1908 108
16. 9. Trying to Make a 'Child into What a Child Should Be': Implementing the Juvenile Delinquents Act, 1908-1925 124
17. PART IV. 'The School Must Be the Agent': Using the New Education to Make the New Society
18. 10. Changing Albert School: The Institutional Context for Education Reform in Canada, 1890-1920 155
19. 11. 'A Very Strong Undercurrent of Dissatisfaction': Setting the Stage for the 'New' Education, 1885-1900 172
20. 12. 'The Common Centre from which Radiated Plans and Labours': The Macdonald-Robertson Movement Demonstrates the New Education to Canadians, 1900-1913 182
21. 13. From Proposals to Policy: The 'New' Education Enters the Main Stream, 1910-1920 202
22. PART V. Children in English-Canadian Society in the Twentieth Century
23. 14. 'Launch a Generation': Organizing to Implement the New Consensus 227
24. Notes 243
25. Bibliographic Note 315
26. Index 323