Women Educators, Leaders and Activists [electronic resource] : Educational Lives and Networks 1900-1960 /
Fitzgerald, Tanya.author.
Smyth, Elizabeth M.author.
This collection traces women educators' professional lives and the extent to which they challenged the gendered terrain they occupied. The emphasis is placed on women's historical public voices and their own interpretation of their 'selves' and 'lives' in their struggle to exercise authority in education.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Educational Lives and Networks; 2 Networks of Influence: Home Scientists at the University of New Zealand 1911-1941; 3 Worlds Within Worlds: Canadian Women Religious, International Connections, Ecclesiastical Webs and the Secular State; 4 Courting Equality: Catholic Women and Agency in the Reconfiguration of University Education in Ireland; 5 Mana Wahine: Boundaries and Connections in the Career of a Maori Educational Leader: Bessie (Wene) Te Wenerau Grace (Sister Eudora CSC)
6 Performing Reforming and the Category of Age: Empire, Internationalism and Transnationalism in the Career of Reta Oldham, Headmistress7 Mary Gutteridge: Transnational Careering in the Field of Early Childhood Education; 8 Henrietta Rodman and the Fight to Further Women's Economic Autonomy; 9 Lives, Networks and Topographies of Time and Place: New Turns in the History of Women and Education; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This collection traces women educators' professional lives and the extent to which they challenged the gendered terrain they occupied. The emphasis is placed on women's historical public voices and their own interpretation of their 'selves' and 'lives' in their struggle to exercise authority in education.
Social history.
Gender identity in education.
Sociology.
Education-History.
School management and organization.
School administration.
History, Modern.
Social History.
Gender and Education.
Gender Studies.
History of Education.
Administration, Organization and Leadership.
Modern History.