The girl question in education : vocational education for young women in the progressive era
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The girl question in education : vocational education for young women in the progressive era
（Studies in curriculum history）
Falmer Press, 1992
Available at 21 libraries
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 1987
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
By 1930 vocational curricula in the United States had been funded by the federal government for more than ten years and vocational programmes were entrenched in the secondary school curriculum. Vocational courses for young women consisted of training for office work, home economics and some trade education. Course work in all three of these areas had actually existed in secondary schools before the turn of the century. However, this study explains that these courses were of a more simple nature than those advocated by the reform movement. The author demonstrates that the vocational function of schools was enlarged and made more specific in the first two decades of the century. She also demonstrates how sex segregation in vocational training became institutionalized.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Prescriptions and myth: home economics - a panacea for reform
- trade education for women who toil
- commercial education for the "office girl". Part 2 Politics: feminist politics and personalities influence Smith-Hughes
- congressional politics and the home economics lobby
- post Smith-Hughes politics. Part 3 Curricular programmes and practice: home economics - a "definitely womanly curriculum"
- "hats, hats, pins, pins"- trade education and the schools
- the success of commercial education
- meanings.
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