Women and Education, 1800-1980

ISBN-13: 9780333947227 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 215 str.

Jane Martin

Opis

Using a biographical approach, Jane Martin and Joyce Goodman explore and celebrate the aims, visions and actions of six little-recognized British women educational activists within 19th and 20th century history: Sarah Austin, Jane Chessar, Margaret Cole, Mary Dendy, Elizabeth Hamilton and Shena Simon. As individuals, these women were very different personalities; as a group, they show how organized women made a contribution to changing philosophy, policy and practice in the field of education.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.- Introduction: Changing Lives: Women, Educational Reform and Personal Identities, 1800-1980.- Individual Lives and Social Histories.- Elizabeth Hamilton (1785-1816) and the 'Plan of Pestalozzi'.- Sarah Austin (1793-1867): 'Voices of Authority' and National Education.- Jane Chessar (1835-80): from 'Surplus' Woman to Professional Educator.- Mary Dendy (1855-1933) and Pedagogies of Care.- Shena Simon (1883-1972) and the 'Religion of Humanity'.- Margaret Cole (1893-1980): Following the Road of Educational and Social Progress.- Conclusion: Individual Lives and Educational Histories.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

JANE MARTIN is Senior Lecturer in History of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK. Her publications include Women and the Politics of Schooling in Victorian and Edwardian England, the winner of the History of Education Society Prize 2002.

JOYCE GOODMAN is Professor of History of Education at King Alfred's College of Higher Education, where she co-ordinates research in the School of Education. Her publications include Women, Educational Policy-Making and Administration in England: Authoritative Women since 1800 (edited with Sylvia Harrop).

Blurb

Women and Education, 1800-1980 examines and celebrates the lives, aims, and achievements of six British women educational activists within nineteenth- and twentieth-century history: Elizabeth Hamilton, Sarah Austin, Jane Chessar, Mary Dendy, Shena Simon and Margaret Cole.
Employing a biographical approach, Jane Martin and Joyce Goodman adopt existing feminist and historical models to explore how these women resisted gender roles and combined their public lives with private commitments. As individuals, these women were very different personalities: as a group they show how organised women made a substantial contribution to public life and changed philosophy, policy and practice.
Women and Education is situated within the tradition of feminist engagements with recovering and reclaiming 'forgotten' female figures in history. By bringing the lives and actions of these female reformers to the forefront, Martin and Goodman not only offer fresh perspectives on the relation between theory and practice in education, but also give a critical new insight into the accomplishments of women in the past.