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Title Women, educational policy-making, and administration in England : authoritative women since 1800 / [edited by] Joyce Goodman and Sylvia Harrop
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 210 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge research in gender and history ; 4
Routledge research in gender and history ; 4.
Contents Chapter 1 'Within marked boundaries' -- Women and the making of educational policy since 1800 / Joyce Goodman -- part Part I Women and school governance -- chapter 2 Women governors and the management of working-class schools, 1800-1861 / Joyce Goodman -- chapter 3 Governing ladies -- Women governors of middle-class girls' schools, 1870-1925 / Joyce Goodman -- part PART II Women and educational administration at local government level -- chapter 4 Women school board members and women school managers: the structuring of educational authority in -- The structuring of educational authority in Manchester and Liverpool, 1870-1903 / Joyce Goodman -- chapter 5 'Women not wanted' -- The fight to secure political representation on Local Education Authorities, 1870-1907 / Jane Martin -- part PART III Women teachers, policy-making and administration in elementary education -- chapter 6 Women and teacher training -- Women and pupil-teacher centres, 1880-1914 / Wendy Robinson -- chapter 7 Women as witnesses -- Elementary schoolmistresses and the Cross Commission, 1885-1888 / Angela O'Hanlon-Dunn -- part PART IV Women and the educational administration of the state -- chapter 8 'The peculiar preserve of the male kind' -- Women and the education inspectorate, 1893 to the Second World War / Joyce Goodman -- chapter 9 Committee women -- Women on the Consultative Committee of the Board of Education, 1900-1944 / Sylvia Harrop -- chapter 10 Parliamentary women -- Women ministers of education, 1924-1974 / Robin Betts -- chapter 10 Parliamentary women: women ministers of education, Bibliography
Summary Opening up the role of women in policy-making as a new field of study, this book takes the example of women in education as its focus. It examines the work, attitudes and actions of women in education over two centuries
Analysis Humaniora Pædagogik
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-204) and index
Notes English
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Subject Women in education -- England -- History -- 19th century
Women in education -- England -- History -- 20th century
Women school administrators -- England -- History -- 19th century
Women school administrators -- England -- History -- 20th century
EDUCATION -- Students & Student Life.
Women in education
Women school administrators
England
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Goodman, Joyce, 1946-
Harrop, Sylvia A
ISBN 0585452725
9780585452722
9781134639700
1134639708
9786610054916
6610054916
1280054913
9781280054914