With regard to quebec what was the quiet revolution

For Jocelyn Letourneau, a noted contemporary historian, the Quiet Revolution legitimized the ascension to power of a new technocratic class in Quebec b. This class created its own unique identity and history, which came to be conflated with that of the collectivity as a whole, i.

This technocratic class emerged as the new dominant elite, and, as in the past, a new elitist culture of Quebec imposed its version of modernity upon the French-speaking population of Quebec. In the introduction to his most recent book, Passer a l'avenir a , Letourneau writes that the past must always and continually be scrutinized within the confines of the contemporary in order to construct a future of openness. And indeed, within the last two decades the Quiet Revolution has become the subject of open debate and controversy Rouillard; C.

Couture; Gagnon and Sara-Bournet; Paquet. Although inspired by that debate and influenced by the numerous publications stemming from it, our essay will also bring to bear a new element which we feel has so far been neglected. To present the Quiet Revolution as the collective aggiornamento of the Quebecois is very reductive; doing so omits the development of Quebec society from the point of view of popular culture.

It is as if nothing ever transpired relevant to the advent of modernity in Quebec society before the June election of Jean Lesage. In our view, the Quiet Revolution was less a revolution and Use this link to get back to this page. Within a few years, Quebec created secondary schools and a network of junior colleges. I was coming from a school of students to one where there were almost 2, of them.

What a difference! But not everyone seemed prepared for the huge changes that Lesage had unleashed. The education reforms had upset a way of life that was centuries old. Lesage's government would be defeated in the election by Duplessis old party The Union Nationale.

But the new premier Daniel Johnson would not try to turn back the clock. The Quiet Revolution would continue. Expo 67 Canada welcomes the world but reveals a tear in its national fabric read more Nationalist Passions The Quiet Revolution. The Quiet Revolution The provincial government spearheads revolution in Quebec In the early s, Quebec's church-based education system became a focal point in a series of rapid, sweeping government reforms. The changes would transform Quebec and mark the peak of the Quiet Revolution.

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