'Child of reason' : Anna Barbauld and the origins of progressive pedagogy / Mary Hilton -- Mary Carpenter : educator of the children of the 'perishing and dangerous classes' / Ruth Watts -- Catherine McAuley and the education of Irish Roman Catholic children in the mid-nineteenth century / Hilary Minns -- Anna Jameson : 'the idol of thousands of young ladies' / Norma Clarke -- Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon : feminist leader and founder of the First University College for Women / Pam Hirsch -- Anne Jemima Clough and Blanche Athena Clough : creating educational institutions for women / Gillian Sutherland -- Clara Collet's dissenting inheritance and the education of women / Jane Miller -- Sara Jane Bannister and teacher training in transition 1870-1918 / Wendy Robinson -- Mary Miller Allan : the complexity of gender negotiations for a woman principal of a teacher training college / Elizabeth Edwards -- 'Mrs Roadknight reports ... ' : Jane Roadknight's visionary role in transforming elementary education / Anne Bloomfield -- English revisionist Froebelians and the schooling of the urban poor / Kevin J. Brehony -- The Montessori phenomenon : gender and internationalism in early twentieth-century innovation / Peter Cunningham -- Susan Isaacs : pioneering work in understanding children's lives / Mary Jane Drummond
Summary
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 education have come to seem almost exclusively masculine. This collection shows the important role which figures such as Mary Carpenter, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, Elizabeth Edwards and Maria Montessori
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-240) and index
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