Practical visionaries : women, education, and social progress, 1790-1930 /
Practical visionaries : women, education, and social progress, 1790-1930 /
edited by Mary Hilton and Pam Hirsch.
- xiii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Women and men in history .
- Women and men in history. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-240) and index.
List of Figures and Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Publisher's Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Emergence of Progressive Women Educators -- 'Child of Reason': Anna Barbauld and the Origins of Progressive Pedagogy -- Mary Carpenter: Educator of the Children of the 'Perishing and Dangerous Classes' -- Catherine McAuley and the Education of Irish Roman Catholic Children in the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- The Struggle for Better Education for Middle-Class Women -- Anna Jameson: 'The Idol of Thousands of Young Ladies' -- Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: Feminist Leader and Founder of the First University College for Women -- Anne Jemima Clough and Blanche Athena Clough: Creating Educational Institutions for Women -- Clara Collet's Dissenting Inheritance and the Education of Women -- Work and Professional Life for Lower Middle-Class Women -- Sarah Jane Bannister and Teacher Training in Transition 1870-1918 -- Mary Miller Allan: The Complexity of Gender Negotiations for a Woman Principal of a Teacher Training College -- The Poor Child - Women and the Progressive Challenge to the Elementary System -- 'Mrs. Roadknight Reports.': Jane Roadknight's Visionary Role in Transforming Elementary Education -- English Revisionist Froebelians and the Schooling of the Urban Poor -- Women Theorists in the Early Twentieth Century -- The Montessori Phenomenon: Gender and Internationalism in Early Twentieth-Century Innovation -- Susan Isaacs: Pioneering Work in Understanding Children's Lives -- Select Bibliography -- Index. Pt. 1. 1. 2. 3. Pt. 2. 4. 5. 6. 7. Pt. 3. 8. 9. Pt. 4. 10. 11. Pt. 5. 12. 13.
0582404312 9780582404311
99044986
Women--Education--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Women--Education--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Women--Education--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Women in education--History
Women educators--Biography
LC2042. / P72 2000
371.8209410903
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-240) and index.
List of Figures and Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Publisher's Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Emergence of Progressive Women Educators -- 'Child of Reason': Anna Barbauld and the Origins of Progressive Pedagogy -- Mary Carpenter: Educator of the Children of the 'Perishing and Dangerous Classes' -- Catherine McAuley and the Education of Irish Roman Catholic Children in the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- The Struggle for Better Education for Middle-Class Women -- Anna Jameson: 'The Idol of Thousands of Young Ladies' -- Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: Feminist Leader and Founder of the First University College for Women -- Anne Jemima Clough and Blanche Athena Clough: Creating Educational Institutions for Women -- Clara Collet's Dissenting Inheritance and the Education of Women -- Work and Professional Life for Lower Middle-Class Women -- Sarah Jane Bannister and Teacher Training in Transition 1870-1918 -- Mary Miller Allan: The Complexity of Gender Negotiations for a Woman Principal of a Teacher Training College -- The Poor Child - Women and the Progressive Challenge to the Elementary System -- 'Mrs. Roadknight Reports.': Jane Roadknight's Visionary Role in Transforming Elementary Education -- English Revisionist Froebelians and the Schooling of the Urban Poor -- Women Theorists in the Early Twentieth Century -- The Montessori Phenomenon: Gender and Internationalism in Early Twentieth-Century Innovation -- Susan Isaacs: Pioneering Work in Understanding Children's Lives -- Select Bibliography -- Index. Pt. 1. 1. 2. 3. Pt. 2. 4. 5. 6. 7. Pt. 3. 8. 9. Pt. 4. 10. 11. Pt. 5. 12. 13.
0582404312 9780582404311
99044986
Women--Education--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Women--Education--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Women--Education--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Women in education--History
Women educators--Biography
LC2042. / P72 2000
371.8209410903