Women teachers and popular education in nineteenth-century France

Women teachers and popular education in nineteenth-century France

by Anne T. Quartararo

1995
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Women Teachers and Popular Education in Nineteenth-Century France is a study of the network of women's teacher training schools, known as the ecoles normales primaires, that were gradually created in France during the nineteenth century. Although this study focuses on the recruitment of teachers, their pedagogical and social instruction, and the teachers' professional formation as part of a corporate group, the book also ties these teacher-related issues to the universal development of public primary education in France. Based on numerous national and departmental archives, the study also explores the social values inherent to public education in modern France through the corporate model of the women's normal schools.

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    How do you think the rigorous professional training women received in nineteenth-century écoles normales challenged or reinforced the traditional domestic roles expected of women at the time?

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    In what ways does the struggle to establish public primary education in nineteenth-century France mirror modern debates over the purpose, funding, and control of public schooling today?

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    Quartararo explores how these women were shaped into a distinct "corporate group"; how do modern professions still socialize their members into specific cultural or behavioral norms, and have you ever experienced this in your own career?

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