Reform of Girls'' Secondary and Higher Education in Victorian England - A Study of Elites and Educational Change

List of contents

Preface. Introduction. 1. Some Socio-Economic and Demographic Perspectives on the Movement for Women’s Educational Reform 2. The Organizers and their Organizations I: Organizational Structure and Strategies 3. The Organizers and their Organizations II: The Organizers’ Backgrounds and Aspirations 4. The Lady-Teachers I: The Lady-Teacher and the Family-like School 5. The Lady-Teachers II: The Impulse to Reform 6. The Headmistresses I: The Public School and the Professional Woman 7. The Headmistresses II: Professional Influences 8. The Headmistresses III: Two Professional Emphases 9. The Students I: Status Concerns and Family Relations 10. The Students II: The Public Schools and Colleges and Public Life. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

About the author

Joyce Senders Pedersen

Summary

First published in 1987, this title reflects the growing doubts of the period as to the ability of formal education provision alone to effect major changes in the distribution of socio-economic privilege at the group level, whether as between the sexes, classes, or ethnic groups.

Product details

• Authors: Joyce Senders Pedersen, Pedersen Joyce Senders
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780815396505
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-9650-5
• No. of pages: 508
• Series: Routledge Revivals; Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; England, EDUCATION / General, Social & cultural history, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Education, Social and cultural history, 1837–1901 (Victorian period)