The education of French Canadians in the monographs of localities in Quebec, from Léon Gérin to Colette Moreux
Before the rise of a sociology of education, monographs focusing on the future of French Canadians have begun to analyze and critique their modernizing education in Quebec. This article presents a summary of the contributions of six books that give it an important place in the representation of the evolution of local economic and community life located outside the major cities of the province and their suburbs. These studies bear witness to the era of a transition, in the eyes of sociologists, between the reign of a tradition and the modernization of Quebec. In the past, the education of French Canadians took place more within families, communities and workplaces than within the school, which changes with the modernization described in the monographs, even in remote rural communities. Each of the authors places the case of French Canadians from Quebec on the sidelines of a more desirable evolution, particularly in the field of education.