Mona
Gleason Receives SHCY's First "Outstanding Article Award"
Among
the many pleasant happenings at the Baltimore meeting of the SHCY
was the announcement of the first recipient of the organization's
"Outstanding Article Award." The commendation was made
this year to Mona Gleason, Assistant Professor in the Dept. of
Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia, for
her article,"Disciplining the Student Body: Schooling and
the Construction of Canadian Children's Bodies,1930-1960,"
published in the History of Education Quarterly 41 (2001):
189-215.
According
to Professor Priscilla Clement, who chaired the awards committee
and made the presentation at the conference dinner on Friday evening,
"Dr. Gleason makes wonderful use of both theory and of the
real life personal experiences of children to explore methods
of school discipline and their impact on children in Canada. She
pays particular attention to race, class, gender and sexuality
in this article."
Gleason's
interests are in Canadian health education and the medicalization
of childhood. She is the author of Normalizing the Ideal:
Psychology, Schooling, and the Family in Postwar Canada, published
by University of Toronto Press in 1999.
The
SHCY "Outstanding Article Award" is given for the best
article in English on the history of children, childhood, or youth
published in calendar year 2001 or 2002 in a print or on-line
journal. Members of this year's awards committee were: Priscilla
Ferguson Clement, Professor of History and Women's Studies, Penn
State, Delaware County Campus; Bruce Lindsay, Deputy Director,
Nursing and Midwifery Research Unit, University of East Anglia;
and Gail Murray, Associate Professor of History, Rhodes College.
