Girl's Schooling During The Progressive Era: From Female Scholar to Domesticated Citizen

by Karen Graves

Overview

This work traces the impact of a differentiated curriculum on girls' education in St. Louis public schools from 1870 to 1930. Its central argument is that the premise upon which a differentiated curriculum is founded, that schooling ought to differ among students in order prepare each for his or her place in the social order, actually led to academic decline. The attention given to the intersection of gender, race, and social class and its combined effect on girls'schooling, places this text in the new wave of critical historical scholarship in the field of educational research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815322245
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/01/1998
Series:	Studies in the History of Education , #10
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Contents *St. Louis: The Future Great City of the World? *St. Louis Women in United States History: Breaking the Silence *The Decline of an Academic System *The Changing Composition of the Student Population *The Eclipse of the Female Scholar *The Ascent of Domesticated Citizen

Editorial Reviews

"Every so often a piece of historical scholarship is written that ingeniously synthesizes existing studies with rigorous archival research to produce a novel way of apprehending both the past and present. Graves's exhaustive new treatment.is one such work..A brilliantly written historical study that bears directly on the educational realities of our own time.This book, among the finest published in the field during the past ten years, is strongly recommended." — Choice

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