The forgotten contribution of the teaching sisters : a historiographical essay on the educational work of Catholic women religious [sic] in the 19th and 20th centuries / Bart Hellinckx, Frank Simon & Marc Depaepe.
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TextSeries: Studia paedagogica (Louvain, Belgium) ; nieuwe reeks, 44.Publication details: Leuven : Leuven University Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (125 pages)Content type: - 9789461660503
- 9461660502
- Catholic Church -- Education -- Historiography
- Église catholique -- Éducation -- Historiographie
- Catholic Church
- Nuns as teachers -- Historiography
- Religieuses enseignantes -- Historiographie
- EDUCATION -- Administration -- General
- EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions
- EDUCATION -- History
- Education -- Historiography
- 371.07 23
- LC490 .H45 2009eb
- online - EBSCO
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Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online | online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Online access | Not for loan (Accesso limitato) | Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users | (ebsco)437103 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-125).
Evolution of scholarly interest in the educational work of women religious -- Overview and assessment of the literature.
Print version record.
For far too long Catholic teaching sisters have been denied their rightful place in the history of education. It is only during the past twenty-five years that researchers in many countries have begun to reveal the fundamental role played by these women in the schooling of children of both the masses and the elite during the 19th and 20th centuries. This essay provides for the first time a detailed overview of the historiography of the teaching sisters in Western Europe, North America, Latin America and Australasia, surveying scholarship since 1985. It reviews the literature on six major themes.
English.