Women Teachers in the Turbulent Educational World of St. John’s, Newfoundland, 1920-1949
This article focuses on the experiences of women teachers in the city of St. John’s between the 1920s and the 1940s. Although their daily work was influenced by many social forces, including those of religion, class, colonialism, and gender, women teachers were positioned as curriculum and pedagogic...
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ftuninewbrunojs:oai:ojs.journals.lib.unb.ca:article/5748 2023-05-15T17:21:18+02:00 Women Teachers in the Turbulent Educational World of St. John’s, Newfoundland, 1920-1949 Whitehead, Kay Pepperal, Judith 2008-03-03 text/html application/pdf https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/5748 eng eng Acadiensis Press https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/5748/11048 https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/5748/6753 https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/5748 Copyright (c) 2015 Acadiensis Acadiensis; Vol. XXXVII, No. 1 Winter/Spring - Hiver/Printemps 2008; 56 1712-7432 0044-5851 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 2008 ftuninewbrunojs 2022-07-11T11:39:59Z This article focuses on the experiences of women teachers in the city of St. John’s between the 1920s and the 1940s. Although their daily work was influenced by many social forces, including those of religion, class, colonialism, and gender, women teachers were positioned as curriculum and pedagogical experts in city schools. They also found spaces to contribute their expertise more broadly to teacher training and education policy-making in Newfoundland during this era. Résumé Cet article examine les expériences d’enseignantes de la ville de St. John’s entre les années 1920 et les années 1940. Même si elles subissaient dans leur travail quotidien l’influence de nombreuses forces sociales, dont celle de la religion, de la classe, du colonialisme et du sexe, les femmes enseignantes faisaient figure d’expertes en programmes d’études et en pédagogie dans les écoles de la ville. Elles trouvaient aussi des lieux où elles pouvaient mettre plus largement leur expertise au service de la formation des enseignants et de l’élaboration des politiques en matière d’éducation à Terre-Neuve pendant cette époque. Article in Journal/Newspaper Newfoundland Terre-Neuve University of New Brunswick: Centre for Digital Scholarship Journals |
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This article focuses on the experiences of women teachers in the city of St. John’s between the 1920s and the 1940s. Although their daily work was influenced by many social forces, including those of religion, class, colonialism, and gender, women teachers were positioned as curriculum and pedagogical experts in city schools. They also found spaces to contribute their expertise more broadly to teacher training and education policy-making in Newfoundland during this era. Résumé Cet article examine les expériences d’enseignantes de la ville de St. John’s entre les années 1920 et les années 1940. Même si elles subissaient dans leur travail quotidien l’influence de nombreuses forces sociales, dont celle de la religion, de la classe, du colonialisme et du sexe, les femmes enseignantes faisaient figure d’expertes en programmes d’études et en pédagogie dans les écoles de la ville. Elles trouvaient aussi des lieux où elles pouvaient mettre plus largement leur expertise au service de la formation des enseignants et de l’élaboration des politiques en matière d’éducation à Terre-Neuve pendant cette époque. |
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Women Teachers in the Turbulent Educational World of St. John’s, Newfoundland, 1920-1949 |
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Women Teachers in the Turbulent Educational World of St. John’s, Newfoundland, 1920-1949 |
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Women Teachers in the Turbulent Educational World of St. John’s, Newfoundland, 1920-1949 |
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Acadiensis; Vol. XXXVII, No. 1 Winter/Spring - Hiver/Printemps 2008; 56 1712-7432 0044-5851 |
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