My research paper is on early education in New France. Formalized education first became prominent in the 17th century. Religion is the foundation of all formal education in the New France. Figures like Marie de L’Incarnation and the Jesuits were the first groups of people to start to form formalized education. Although the religious leaders from France wanted to teach others their ways, the first nations people had their own ways of education. The Nuns and Jesuits aimed to convert the First nations people of New France. Their actions to assimilate the first nations were not always humane, or practical. Jesuits took to trying to learn about the first nations people before seeing how to best educate them about their religion. The religious formal education the in New France helped to shape what formal education is today.
In this section you will get to see my primary document analysis on letters from Marie de L’Incarnation, my research paper outline, and my paper.