1st Edition
Practical Visionaries Women, Education and Social Progress, 1790-1930
266 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
266 Pages
by
Routledge
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An examination of women educationists in nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain. Working with new paradigms opened up by feminist scholarship, it reveals how women leaders were determined to transform education in the quest for a better society. Previous scholarship has either neglected the contributions of these women or has misplaced them. Consequently intellectual histories of... Read more
List of Figures and Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements Publisher's Acknowkdgements Introduction Mary Hilton and Pam Hirsch PART ONE: The Emergence of Progressive Women Educators PART Two: The Struggle for Better Education for Middle-Class Women PART THREE: Work and Professional Life for Lower Middle-Class Women PART FOUR: The Poor Child - Women and the Progressive Challenge to the Elementary System PART FIVE: Women Theorists in the Early Twentieth Century Select Bibliography Index
Biography
Mary Hilton is a Senior Lecturer in Education and Pam Hirsch is a Senior Research Associate at Homerton College, Cambridge.
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