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Practical visionaries : women, education, and social progress, 1790-1930 / edited by Mary Hilton and Pam Hirsch.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Women and men in historyPublisher: Harlow, England ; New York : Longman, 2000Description: xiii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0582404312
  • 9780582404311
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 371.8209410903
LOC classification:
  • LC2042. P72 2000
Contents:
List of Figures and Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Publisher's Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Pt. 1. The Emergence of Progressive Women Educators -- 1. 'Child of Reason': Anna Barbauld and the Origins of Progressive Pedagogy -- 2. Mary Carpenter: Educator of the Children of the 'Perishing and Dangerous Classes' -- 3. Catherine McAuley and the Education of Irish Roman Catholic Children in the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- Pt. 2. The Struggle for Better Education for Middle-Class Women -- 4. Anna Jameson: 'The Idol of Thousands of Young Ladies' -- 5. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: Feminist Leader and Founder of the First University College for Women -- 6. Anne Jemima Clough and Blanche Athena Clough: Creating Educational Institutions for Women -- 7. Clara Collet's Dissenting Inheritance and the Education of Women -- Pt. 3. Work and Professional Life for Lower Middle-Class Women -- 8. Sarah Jane Bannister and Teacher Training in Transition 1870-1918 -- 9. Mary Miller Allan: The Complexity of Gender Negotiations for a Woman Principal of a Teacher Training College -- Pt. 4. The Poor Child - Women and the Progressive Challenge to the Elementary System -- 10. 'Mrs. Roadknight Reports.': Jane Roadknight's Visionary Role in Transforming Elementary Education -- 11. English Revisionist Froebelians and the Schooling of the Urban Poor -- Pt. 5. Women Theorists in the Early Twentieth Century -- 12. The Montessori Phenomenon: Gender and Internationalism in Early Twentieth-Century Innovation -- 13. Susan Isaacs: Pioneering Work in Understanding Children's Lives -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-240) and index.

List of Figures and Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Publisher's Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Pt. 1. The Emergence of Progressive Women Educators -- 1. 'Child of Reason': Anna Barbauld and the Origins of Progressive Pedagogy -- 2. Mary Carpenter: Educator of the Children of the 'Perishing and Dangerous Classes' -- 3. Catherine McAuley and the Education of Irish Roman Catholic Children in the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- Pt. 2. The Struggle for Better Education for Middle-Class Women -- 4. Anna Jameson: 'The Idol of Thousands of Young Ladies' -- 5. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: Feminist Leader and Founder of the First University College for Women -- 6. Anne Jemima Clough and Blanche Athena Clough: Creating Educational Institutions for Women -- 7. Clara Collet's Dissenting Inheritance and the Education of Women -- Pt. 3. Work and Professional Life for Lower Middle-Class Women -- 8. Sarah Jane Bannister and Teacher Training in Transition 1870-1918 -- 9. Mary Miller Allan: The Complexity of Gender Negotiations for a Woman Principal of a Teacher Training College -- Pt. 4. The Poor Child - Women and the Progressive Challenge to the Elementary System -- 10. 'Mrs. Roadknight Reports.': Jane Roadknight's Visionary Role in Transforming Elementary Education -- 11. English Revisionist Froebelians and the Schooling of the Urban Poor -- Pt. 5. Women Theorists in the Early Twentieth Century -- 12. The Montessori Phenomenon: Gender and Internationalism in Early Twentieth-Century Innovation -- 13. Susan Isaacs: Pioneering Work in Understanding Children's Lives -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

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