Teachers Must Read: Imagining and Instructing the Teacher-as-Reader in Nineteenth-Century English Canada.

The article focuses on the history of reading by examining educational journals printed in the 19th century Ontario, Canada. Topics discussed include how educational journals played a leading role in training of an informed public; how these played an important role for the schools and teachers on the best ways to teach reading and promoting literacy; and opinion that such journals dispensed to an emerging professional class (schoolteachers) on what to read.