Patricia started following the work of Omeasoo Butt.
Patricia started following the work of Erin Sperling, University of Toronto, Curriculum, Teaching and Learning.
Patricia started following the work of Benjamin Bryce, York University, History.
Graduate Student, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
PhD Candidate
History
Thesis Title: More than Sunday’s Lessons: Sunday School Education, Literacy, and Nation-Building in Early Ontario
About
My dissertation is a socio-cultural history of the Sunday school in Ontario before 1871. In particular I am concerned with how the Sunday school was a site of nation-building in the period leading up to Confederation. My work connects the themes of nationalism and citizenship with literacy and religion. I am interested in how women, children and men actively participated in the construction of national identities through self-directed sites of literacy and religious education.
