ABSTRACT
A history of teacher education is more than the preparation of teachers for employment, and it must be told alongside the social, political, and economic history. Baker, the first president of the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI), lists the primary historical groups on Prince Edward Island (PEI) as being Irish, Highland Scots, Lowland Scots, English, and Acadian. The cultural psychology of PEI in the early nineteenth century is largely one of projecting the Protestant-Catholic animus onto teachers. In 1971, the first president of UPEI, R. J. Baker, struck a committee to investigate teacher education. Consolidation is geographical and political, delivering a newer gospel, one favouring urbanization, as the "older ways" are no longer sufficient for flourishing in modern society. With consolidation, especially in PEI, is the diminishment of parental control. The Bible controversy that McKenna describes was controversial because both Catholics and Protestants argue that education is an extension of the home rather than the state.
