Women and Education, 1800-1980
Using a biographical approach, Jane Martin and Joyce Goodman explore and celebrate the aims, visions and actions of six little-recognized British women educational activists within nineteenth- and twentieth-century history: Sarah Austin, Jane Chessar, Margaret Cole, Mary Dendy, Elizabeth Hamilton and Shena Simon. As individuals, these women were very different personalities; as a group, they show how organized women made a contribution to changing philosophy, policy and practice in the field...
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Using a biographical approach, Jane Martin and Joyce Goodman explore and celebrate the aims, visions and actions of six little-recognized British women educational activists within nineteenth- and twentieth-century history: Sarah Austin, Jane Chessar, Margaret Cole, Mary Dendy, Elizabeth Hamilton and Shena Simon. As individuals, these women were very different personalities; as a group, they show how organized women made a contribution to changing philosophy, policy and practice in the field of education.
AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Changing Lives? Women, Educational Reform and Personal Identities, 1800-198011Individual Lives and Social Histories72Elizabeth Hamilton (1758-1816) and the 'Plan of Pestalozzi'273Sarah Austin (1793-1867): 'Voices of Authority' and National Education484Jane Chessar (1835-80): From 'Surplus' Woman to Professional Educator725Mary Dendy (1855-1933) and Pedagogies of Care976Shena Simon (1883-1972) and the 'Religion of Humanity'1187Margaret Cole (1893-1980): Following the Road of Educational and Social Progress1418Conclusion: Individual Lives and Educational Histories169Notes184Bibliography187Index204
