Bart Hellinckx | Frank Simon | Marc Depaepe The forgotten contribution of the teaching sisters

a historiographical essay on the educational work of Catholic women religious in the 19th and 20th centuries

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...

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Engels | 126 pagina's (PDF, 2,1 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017

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