Symposium: The History of Women in Education

1997 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. v-xiv
Author(s):  
Christine Woyshner ◽  
Bonnie Hao Kuo Tai
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Informal Education ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Common School ◽  
Education Of Women ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
School Movement

The nineteenth century saw major advances in educational opportunities for women and girls, from the common school movement in the early part of the century to multiple opportunities in higher education at the century's close. In the 1800s, women began to play central roles in education — as teachers and as learners, in formal and informal education settings, on the frontier and in the cities. What did these advances mean for the education of women and girls in the twentieth century? This Symposium looks at developments in the education of women and girls over the course of the twentieth century, including research currently being conducted by and about women who historically have been excluded from mainstream academic discourse.

The Bible in American Public Schools

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Rosenblith ◽  
Patrick Womac
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Scientific Reasoning ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Common School ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
School Movement

This chapter traces the Bible’s path through the history of American public education beginning in the colonial period, where it was central to the project of education, through the Common School movement, where its relevance was challenged as Enlightenment and scientific reasoning took hold. By the turn of the twentieth century, the Bible had lost its stronghold on public schools and the contentious relationship was cemented through a series of court cases that continue to impact policy and curriculum to the present time. The chapter concludes by highlighting several contemporary policies implemented to try to return the Bible, in some fashion, to public schools.

The fire next time. Cosmology, allegoresis, and salvation in the Derveni Papyrus

1997 ◽  
Vol 117 ◽  
pp. 117-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn W. Most
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Divine Intervention ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Organic Decomposition

Just in case there were any hardened sceptics who still doubted, in the second half of the twentieth century, that our world is ruled by an inept and rather junior God with immature judgment and a nasty sense of humour, He did his best to convince them by arranging for the discovery of the Derveni papyrus in 1962. The soldier who was cremated and buried in that Macedonian village towards the end of the fourth century bc had intended that the text of this papyrus be devoured by the flames of his pyre; but as it happened one of the burning logs fell onto the roll, covering and charring its top third and thereby saving that part both from immediate annihilation by the fire itself and from subsequent destruction by organic decomposition; then the Greek excavators sharp-wittedly recognized that the roll was not wood but papyrus, and the restorer of the Viennese papyrus collection managed to put together the more than 200 fragments into 26 columns of text. As A.E. Housman wrote in another connection, such a series of highly unlikely incidents can evidently not be ascribed to ‘chance and the common course of nature’, but only to divine intervention: ‘and when one considers the history of man and the spectacle of the universe I hope one may say without impiety that divine intervention might have been better employed elsewhere’.

scholarly journals Weighing Down the Landscape: The Quarry as a Site of Rural Modernity

2018 ◽  
pp. 69-83
Author(s):  
Samuel Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Close Relation ◽  
Art Galleries ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Art Works ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
A Site ◽  
Rural Industries

This chapter argues that late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artists seem to have been especially attracted by quarries, treating them as a means of exploring modernity through the lens of rural romanticism. Quarries regularly appear in paintings in many of the artists associated with rural modernity: William Rothenstein, Edward Wadsworth, Walter Bell, Roger Fry, and J. D. Fergusson, among them. Appreciating that there is no single way of categorising and representing quarries, this chapter (the first ever study of this important subject) explores many of the common themes to be found in paintings of quarries in the first half of the twentieth century. It considers a wide range of artists and art-works — the majority of which are owned by rural art galleries — in close relation to the history of rural industries in such regions as Cornwall, West Yorkshire, and Edinburgh.

scholarly journals NATIONALISM IN VIETNAM AND KOREAN LITERATURE IN THE LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURIES: CASES OF PHAN BOI CHAU AND SHIN CHAE-HO

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tran Tung Ngoc ◽  
Nguyen Le Thu
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Korean Literature ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
History Of Literature

East Asian literature in the early twentieth century witnessed the emergence of many great authors who gathered all personality of a patriot - writer - historian - revolutionary activist. They emphasized literature does not serve artistic purposes, but social purposes, which touch the heart. Literature at this time conveyed the stream of national consciousness, nationalism, independence and freedom to all of the people and promoted their patriotism and the spirit of fighting for the nation and the people. This paper focuses on analyzing the nationalist ideology in the works of Phan Boi Chau and Shin Chae-ho in the history of literature of Vietnam and Korea in the early twentieth century. Thereby, the research provides an overview of the common characteristics of the nationalist literature in East Asia. In the research content, this paper recognizes the nationalist ideology of Korean and Vietnamese intellectuals in the transformation of the historical, political and social situation in the early twentieth century. On that basis, this paper identifies the characteristics of nationalism in Shin Chae-ho’s and Phan Boi Chau's works.

Irish Crime Fiction

2020 ◽  
pp. 351-369
Author(s):  
Ian Campbell Ross
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Oscar Wilde ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Irish Language ◽  
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu ◽  
History Of

This chapter surveys the history of Irish crime fiction, a genre whose contemporary popularity tends to obscure its origins in the works of nineteenth-century writers including Gerald Griffin, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Oscar Wilde, and L. T. Meade. The discussion highlights some of the most significant works that lie along the broad spectrum of writing that ‘crime fiction’ occupies and, in so doing, reveals the plurality of ‘Irish’ crime fiction over the course of 180 years. Among the topics covered are the features that distinguish nineteenth-century Irish crime writing from its British counterpart; the emergence of Irish-language crime fiction in the early part of the twentieth century, and the defining features of contemporary Irish crime fiction, which has flourished domestically and internationally since the 1990s.

Alexander Morrison Stewart (1861–1948): noteworthy naturalist from Paisley, Scotland

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
History Of

Attention is drawn to the contribution made by Alexander Morrison Stewart to the natural history of the Paisley area in the early part of the twentieth century. From humble beginnings and while working on Paisley pattern textiles designs, Stewart rose to prominence as a naturalist in Renfrewshire, primarily from his interest in entomology. He founded the Paisley Naturalists' Society and held several positions within its ranks. Despite being a prolific writer of articles in local newspapers and the author of five books on insects and general natural history, he remains little-known nowadays. He networked with other local naturalists, notably the Reverend Charles A. Hall, to whose “Peeps at nature” series he contributed two lepidopteran titles. He donated a substantial butterfly collection to the Paisley Museum and was an advocate of the so-called “Paisley Method” of setting butterflies. An accomplished artist, he was much attached to the Firth of Clyde islands of Arran and Cumbrae, visiting them often for holidays spent sketching and collecting.

A time of one's own? Female recollections of youth in Denmark at the turn of the twentieth century

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-408
Author(s):  
BIRGITTE SØLAND
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Successive Generations ◽  
New Jobs

The decades around the turn of the twentieth century mark a critical transitional moment in the history of European girlhood. These decades witnessed a significant expansion in educational opportunities for girls and young women, while a broad range of new jobs provided previously unknown options in the labour market. Based on 1,100 unpublished memoirswritten by Danish women, this article explores how these changes affected the lives and experiences of three successive generations of women who came of age from the 1880s to the 1930s.

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