| 单词 | residential school |
| 释义 | > as lemmasresidential school residential school n. a school at which pupils are resident, a boarding school; spec. (a) Canadian a government-supported boarding school for American Indian and Inuit children (now historical); (b) a boarding school for children in need of special support, such as those with a disability or behavioural difficulties. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > boarding school charge-house1598 pensiona1652 tabling school1660 boarding school1677 board-school1740 pensionnat1840 residential school1876 pension-school1902 1876 Times 8 Dec. 3/6 The terrible epidemics of ophthalmia from which so many residential schools have suffered. 1888 in J. C. Gordon Educ. Deaf Children (1892) ii. 33/1 In residential schools they are only mixing among the deaf. 1914 D. C. Scott in A. Shortt & A. G. Doughty Canada & its Provinces VII. 616 It includes..the substitution of Christian ideals of conduct and morals for aboriginal conceptions of both. To this end the curriculum in residential schools has been simplified. 1985 P. W. On & C. H. Persell in P. W. Cookson & C. H. Persell Preparing for Power 3 Only 20 to 30 percent of those [sc. American high school students] are enrolled in private residential schools. 1991 Wicazo Sa Rev. Fall 72 The Indian residential school, where Native youths were to have been re-created in Euro-Canadian images. 1998 Community Care 5 Feb. 52/3 (advt.) Cotsbrook is a residential school for 18 emotionally and behaviourally disturbed young people. < as lemmas |
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