Overseas: Canada

Abstract

To teach in a university in North America is always a confrontation with the possibilities of mass education. The numbers are enormous; the organization of teaching, for anyone brought up in the British system, becomes a disturbing administrative problem that is not always easy to work with, and which can destroy a compact sense of what one is supposed to be teaching. But if the university is odd, the ‘further’ education part of teaching — in this case in Montreal in Canada — is stranger still: the extraordinary variety of students, the consequence of an immigrant population, raises very sharply the question ‘Why do they want degrees?’, and beyond that, ‘What ought they to be taught?’

Citation

Munton, A. (1971), "Overseas: Canada", Education + Training, Vol. 13 No. 12, pp. 426-427. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb016270