TY - JOUR AU - Randall Wakelam PY - 2004/10/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Officer Professional Education in the Canadian Forces and the Rowley Report, 1969 JF - Historical Studies in Education / Revue d'histoire de l'éducation JA - HSE-RHE VL - 16 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.32316/hse/rhe.v16i2.334 UR - https://historicalstudiesineducation.ca/hse/index.php/edu_hse-rhe/article/view/334 AB - In the late 1960s the Canadian Military was experiencing a peacetime upheaval. The three previously independent Services were being amalgamated – unified – by political direction. This meant that previously independent processes, including professional education, had to be rethought and reorganized to fit the new single-force philosophy. Under the leadership of a battlefield commander, Major-General Roger Rowley, a small team set out to devise a radical concept for academic and professional education that would provide officers with a coherent suite of learning programs spanning their careers, all provided for by an integrated single military-civilian teaching engine. The plan immediately met resistance from pre-existing organizations and, harried by organizational reductions, faded from the scene, even as the value of enhanced education was receiving general support. In 2002, with a renewed focus on intellectual agility, the concept was resurrected with the establishment of the Canadian Defence Academy. ER -