Public Education and the Manufacture of Solidarity: Christopher Dunkin's Design for Lower Canada
Authors
Bruce Curtis
Abstract
The organization of systems of public education tends not to figure in Foucauldian
genealogies of the social, which focus especially on programs for social insurance
that developed at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. An analysis
of the plans for educational reconstruction in colonial Lower Canada in the mid-
1800s, however, points to the foundational nature of the analysis of education for
liberal political thought and practice.