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Lillian de Lissa, Women Teachers and Teacher Education in the Twentieth Century: A Transnational History
Australasia, Australia, Australia and New Zealand, Lillian de Lissa - Biographic sources, Montessori method of education, Oceania
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Abstract/Notes: Beginning with Lillian de Lissa’s career as foundation principal of the Adelaide Kindergarten Training College in Australia (1907–1917) and Gipsy Hill Training College in London (1917–1947), and incorporating the lives and work of her Australian and British graduates, this book illuminates the transnational circulation of knowledge about teacher education and early childhood education in the twentieth century. Acutely aware of anxieties regarding the role of modern women and the social positioning of teachers, students who attended college under de Lissa’s leadership experienced a progressive institutional culture and comprehensive preparation for work as kindergarten, nursery and infant teachers. Drawing on a broad range of archival material, this study explores graduates’ professional and domestic lives, leisure activities and civic participation, from their initial work as novice teachers through diverse life paths to their senior years. Due to the interwar marriage bar, many women teachers married, resigned from paid work and became mothers. The book explores their experiences, along with those of lifelong teachers whose work spread across a range of educational fields and different parts of the world. Although most graduates spent their lives in Australia or England, de Lissa’s personal and professional networks traversed the British dominions and colonies, Europe and the USA, fostering fascinating global connections between people, places and educational ideas.
Language: English
Published: New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2016
ISBN: 978-3-0343-1955-3
Article
Dean Robbins Find Joy in Child Education; Tell 17 Women Graduates of Montessori School Their Work Will Not Be Dreary
Publication: New York Times (New York, New York)
Date: Jun 6, 1927
Pages: 12
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Language: English
ISSN: 0362-4331
Book
Of Courage and Valor: Heroic Stories of Men and Women
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Language: English
Published: New York, New York: Hart Book, 1955
Article
Club Women to Teach Home-Making to Girls
Available from: NewsBank - San Diego Evening Tribune Historical
Publication: San Diego Evening Tribune (San Diego, California)
Date: Sep 30, 1915
Pages: 6
Americas, North America, United States of America
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Abstract/Notes: "...The object of the movement will be to promote home-making and the home care and training of children, by maintaining a school of mothercraft, having a kindergarten, a resident nursery and public reference library on subjects of motherhood. A Montessori class is also proposed and courses of lectures on subjects such as feeding children, child hygiene and child literature will be given..."
Language: English
Doctoral Dissertation
The Roots and Legacies of Four Key Women Pioneers in Early Childhood Education: A Theorectical and Philosophical Discussion
Available from: British Library - EthOS
Margaret McMillan - Biographic sources, Maria Montessori - Biographic sources, Rachel McMillan - Biographic sources, Susan Isaacs - Biographic sources
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Abstract/Notes: Philosophical, theoretical and scientific interest in early childhood has a very long history. The idea that the early years are the foundation of children's long term prospects is one of the most ancient, enduring and influencing themes shaping early childhood policy and provision today. The motivation and purpose for this study stems from a desire to de-familiarise that which is already known in order to reflect upon, and identify new understandings of early childhood education in relation to universal values and beliefs concerning young children's learning and development. Using an interpretative paradigm, which Habermas (1984, p.109) would describe as a "double hermeneutic" as the process involves striving to re- interpret the already interpreted world, I argue that the principles, practices and provision of early childhood education in the United Kingdom today have strong roots in the innovative pedagogies of four influential women of the 19th and 20th century: Margaret and Rachel McMillan, Maria Montessori and Susan Isaacs. This study adopts a historical stance and firstly examines how early childhood education began through exploring and reflecting upon the early philosophers of the past whose ideas, values and beliefs were influential in shaping the key women pioneers' thinking. The study then moves on to examines the roots and legacies of the four women and the contribution they each made to early childhood education today. The contribution of my thesis to current knowledge and understanding of early childhood education lies firstly in the way I have synthesised the lives and work of the four women who form the focus of this thesis and secondly, in my demonstration of the way much of what constitutes effective early childhood provision has been shaped through the course of history.
Language: English
Published: Sheffield, England, 2011
Article
Caratteri Fisici delle Giovani Donne del Lazio: Desunti dall'Osservazione di 200 soggetti [Physical Characteristics of Young Women in Lazio: Taken from the Observation of 200 Subjects]
Available from: HathiTrust
Publication: Atti della Società Romana di Antropologia, vol. 12
Date: 1906
Pages: 37-120
Europe, Italy, Maria Montessori - Writings, Southern Europe
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Language: Italian
ISSN: 0393-8468
Article
Hindu Educational Expert Addresses Jewish Women
Available from: National Library of Israel
Publication: Sentinel (Chicago, Illinois)
Date: Nov 14, 1913
Pages: 15
Americas, Montessori method of education, North America, Paul Chinnappa - Biographic sources, United States of America
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Language: English
Book
Practical Visionaries: Women, Education, and Social Progress, 1790-1930
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Language: English
Published: Harlow, England: Longman, 2000
ISBN: 0-582-40431-2 978-0-582-40431-1
Series: Women and men in history
Article
National Union of Women Teachers; London Unit Notes; Dr. Montessori
Available from: JSTOR
Publication: The Woman Teacher, vol. 7, no. 44
Date: Sep 24, 1926
Pages: 360
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Language: English
Article
Women in Print
Available from: Papers Past
Publication: Evening Post (Wellington, New Zealand)
Date: Jan 5, 1918
Pages: 9
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Language: English