Overview
- Explores how women worked to improve the health and education of elementary school children and to improve their social status
- Uses the sociology of childhood to investigate children’s experiential knowledge: their duty to help with their family’s economic survival
- Considers whether and how elementary schooling was important to children
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Berry Mayall is Professor of Childhood Studies at the UCL Institute of Education, UK. She has conducted many research studies on childhood and has written extensively on sociological approaches to childhood.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Visionary Women and Visible Children, England 1900-1920
Book Subtitle: Childhood and the Women's Movement
Authors: Berry Mayall
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61207-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61206-5Published: 08 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87025-0Published: 18 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61207-2Published: 26 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 229
Topics: Early Childhood Education, History of Education, Sociology of Education, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Social History