The Reform of Girls' Secondary and Higher Education in Victorian England
A Study of Elites and Educational Change
Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching
| Author: | Joyce Senders Pedersen | ISBN: | 9781351181662 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | December 15, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
| Author: | Joyce Senders Pedersen |
| ISBN: | 9781351181662 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication: | December 15, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Language: | English |
Originally published in 1987, this title was first submitted as a doctoral dissertation at the University of California, Berkeley in 1974. Completed just as the years of expansion in higher education were drawing to a close, it 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.
Reforms in women’s education had traditionally been dealt with as a small part of the women’s emancipation movement. This book approaches the education reforms in a different way and begins with the question of which social groups participated in the movement. Seen from this point of view, a primary interest of the reforms is the function they served in promoting a redefinition of the status and roles of a social elite.
Originally published in 1987, this title was first submitted as a doctoral dissertation at the University of California, Berkeley in 1974. Completed just as the years of expansion in higher education were drawing to a close, it 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.
Reforms in women’s education had traditionally been dealt with as a small part of the women’s emancipation movement. This book approaches the education reforms in a different way and begins with the question of which social groups participated in the movement. Seen from this point of view, a primary interest of the reforms is the function they served in promoting a redefinition of the status and roles of a social elite.
