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ERIC Number: EJ273645
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1982
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Building for Today and Tomorrow. (The Sixteenth Amy Morris Homans Lecture.)
Spears, Betty
Quest, v34 n2 p89-98 1982
In the face of widespread belief that women were unsuitable for physical education, Amy Morris Homans and Mary Hemenway founded the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics in 1889 to train female physical education teachers. Later, the school affiliated with Wellesley College and established a graduate program directed by Homans. (PP)
Descriptors: Biographies, Educational Attitudes, Exercise, Females, Higher Education, Physical Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Schools of Education, Teacher Educators, Womens Education
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Historical Materials; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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