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Practical visionaries : women, education, and social progress, 1790-1930 / edited by Mary Hilton and Pam Hirsch.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Women and men in history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Education--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Women.
- Women--Education--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Women--Education--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Women in education--History.
- Women in education.
- Women educators--Biography.
- Women educators.
- History.
- Women--Education.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Harlow, England ; New York : Longman, 2000.
- Summary:
- O272-7,0-582-40431-2, Hilton, Mary, Hirsch, Pam, Practical Visionaries: Women, Education and Social Progress, 1790-1930 */ This latest book in the Women and Men in History Series examines women educationists in nineteenth century and early twentieth century Britain. It explores new avenues opened up by the latest research in gender studies and the book reveals how women leaders were determined to transform education in the quest for a better society. Shows the important role played by Mary Carpenter, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, Elizabeth Edwards and Maria Montessori. For those intersted in the social history of Britain.
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Emergence of Progressive Women Educators 19
- 1. 'Child of Reason': Anna Barbauld and the Origins of Progressive Pedagogy / Mary Hilton 21
- 2. Mary Carpenter: Educator of the Children of the 'Perishing and Dangerous Classes' / Ruth Watts 39
- 3. Catherine McAuley and the Education of Irish Roman Catholic Children in the Mid-Nineteenth Century / Hilary Minns 52
- Part 2 The Struggle for Better Education for Middle-Class Women 67
- 4. Anna Jameson: 'The Idol of Thousands of Young Ladies' / Norma Clarke 69
- 5. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: Feminist Leader and Founder of the First University College for Women / Pam Hirsch 84
- 6. Anne Jemima Clough and Blanche Athena Clough: Creating Educational Institutions for Women / Gillian Sutherland 101
- 7. Clara Collet's Dissenting Inheritance and the Education of Women / Jane Miller 115
- Part 3 Work and Professional Life for Lower Middle-Class Women 129
- 8. Sarah Jane Bannister and Teacher Training in Transition 1870-1918 / Wendy Robinson 131
- 9. Mary Miller Allan: The Complexity of Gender Negotiations for a Woman Principal of a Teacher Training College / Elizabeth Edwards 149
- Part 4 The Poor Child
- Women and the Progressive Challenge to the Elementary System 165
- 10. 'Mrs Roadknight Reports ...': Jane Roadknight's Visionary Role in Transforming Elementary Education / Anne Bloomfield 167
- 11. English Revisionist Froebelians and the Schooling of the Urban Poor / Kevin J. Brehony 183
- Part 5 Women Theorists in the Early Twentieth Century 201
- 12. The Montessori Phenomenon: Gender and Internationalism in Early Twentieth-Century Innovation / Peter Cunningham 203
- 13. Susan Isaacs: Pioneering Work in Understanding Children's Lives / Mary Jane Drummond 221.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-240) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0582404312
- OCLC:
- 42290634
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