Constructing Opportunity - American Women Educators in Early Meiji Japan

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth K. Eder is a Lecturer at the University of Maryland's Department of Education Policy and Leadership. Klappentext Constructing Opportunity: American Women Educators in Early Meiji Japan tells the story of Margaret Clark Griffis and Dora E. Schoonmaker, two extraordinary women who transcended the traditional boundaries of nation, class, and gender by living and working in an alternative cultural setting outside the United States in the 1870s. Author Elizabeth K. Eder draws on numerous primary sources, including unpublished diaries and letters, to give both an intimate biographical account of these women's lives and an examination of the social and institutional frameworks of their professional lives in Japan. Zusammenfassung Margaret Clark Griffis and Dora E. Schoonmaker travelled thousands of miles in the 1850s to teach Japanese children. Elizabeth Eder draws on many primary sources to give both an intimate biographical account and an examination of the social and institutional frameworks of their professional lives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Opportunity Structures and the Lives of American Women, 1870-1900 Chapter 2 Working Without Seeming To: The Teaching Profession as a Form of Opportunity Chapter 3 Teaching Abroad as Domestic Duty: The Case of Margaret Clark Griffis Chapter 4 Teaching Abroad as Moral Mission: The Case of Dora E. Schoonmaker Chapter 5 Opportunities Without Parallel Chapter 6 Returning Home: Opportunities Re-Imagined? Chapter 7 Conclusion

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Elizabeth K Eder, Elizabeth K. Eder, Eder Elizabeth K.
• Editore: Lexington Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 24.09.2003
• EAN: 9780739106402
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-0640-2
• Pagine: 288
• Serie: Studies of Modern Japan; Studies of Modern Japan
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Pedagogia sociale, assistenza sociale; Biography: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, EDUCATION / Special Education / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Educators, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Teaching of students with different educational needs, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional