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Author:   Christine Mayer ,  Adelina Arredondo
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   2020 ed.
Weight:   0.483kg
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9783030449346

ISBN 10:   3030449343
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   07 May 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"1. Introduction.- 2. ""The Measure to Rank the Nations in Terms of Wealth and Power?"" Transnationalism and the Circulation of the ""Idea"" of Women's Education.- 3. The Differentials of Gendered Social Capital in Indian Literacy-Educational Activism, 1880-1930: Renewing Transnational Approaches.- 4. French Catholic Teaching Sisters Go International: Rereading Histories of Girls' Education Through a Political and Transnational Lens.- 5. Writing Home to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions: Missionary Women Abroad Narrate Their Precarious Worlds, 1869-1915.- 6. Julia Lloyd and the Kindergarten: A Local Case Study in a Transnational Setting.- 7. The Transnational Roots of the Froebel Educational Institute, London.- 8. The Greeks Girls' School Arsakeion as a Case Study in its National Role during the Balkan Wars (1912-1914).- 9. Suffragist Mother-Teachers: Familial and Professional Identity Through the Entangled Historical Lens of Mandatory Palestine, 1918-1926.- 10. WomenEducators' Sojourns Around the British Empire from the Interwar Years to the Mid-Twentieth Century.- "

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Christine Mayer is Professor Emeritus of Theory of Education and Gender at the University of Hamburg, Germany. She has written numerous articles on education, vocational education, gender, and on women’s and children’s work in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as on the relationship between educational thoughts and gender anthropology in the era of Enlightenment. Her current research focuses on the transnational and transcultural circulation and transfer of educational ideas and practices. Adelina Arredondo is Professor at the Institute of Sciences of Education, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, México, and a member of the National System of Researchers. She has served in the executive committees of the Mexican Society of History of Education, the National Council of Educative Research, and the International Standing Conference of History of Education, where she has been Co-convenor of SWG “Gender and Education” (2011-2016) and of the SWG ""History of Secular (laic) Education"" (2017-2022).

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