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Language and Meaning in a Documentary Source: Girls' Curriculum from the Late Eighteenth Century to the Schools Inquiry Commission, 1868
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Cohen, Michele – History of Education, 2005
Between 1864 and 1868, the Schools Inquiry Commission carried out enquiries into the education provided in secondary schools in England, producing the ever first official and systematic comparison of girls' and boys' performance in school. In 1869, following the publication of the Commissions report, Dorothea Beale, Principal of Cheltenham Ladies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Historiography, Females, Educational History
Gender and 'Method' in Eighteenth-Century English Education
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Cohen, Michele – History of Education, 2004
There was very little in common between Mary Wollstonecraft and Hannah More. For More and Wollstonecraft, and for many of their contemporaries, what women?s education lacked most significantly was order, method and system. Recent scholarly work on the Enlightenment has identified changes in attitudes towards women?s education, epitomized in the…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Educational History, Attitude Change