The Role Of Education In New France

The Canadian insistence on the collective concerns of peace, order and good government has meant that state projects such as education are seen in terms of their overall impact on society. To understand the growth of schooling in Canada, special attention must be paid both to official policies and the changing nature of children's lives.

Education in New France During the French regime in Canada, the method of learning was fused into the daily life of the people. the French government encouraged the Catholic Church to oversee teaching religion, mathematics, history, natural science, and French, then, the family was the primary component of communal structure and the principal setting in which almost all learning was done. families continued to depend on the economic contributions of their children, who were engaged in productive activity. Children acquired skills like gardening, spinning and land clearing from other family members. Young males were trained for various trades through a system of apprenciship.

Likewise, as it was a small and scattered population, it was the family that was usually providing religious instruction as they were also helping in teaching reading and writing. The parish priests, In certain areas, “established petites écoles in which they taught catechism and other subjects (Historica Canada, 2015, np ). However, most of the population in New France, specifically in the rural areas, could not read and write. At the beginning of the 17th century, almost one-quarter of the colonialists were educated, however, by the turn of the 18th century, the passion of to remain alive had have an adverse effect on the