| Women, Educational Policy-Making and Administration in England: Authoritative Women Since 1800 Subjects: Agencies and Institutions; Gender and Sexuality; Class and Work; States of Mind; Area Studies; Education; Humanities; Local State; Education; Gender Roles and Stereotypes; Feminism and Women''s Movement; Social Groups; Political Beliefs and Ideologies; National State; Gender Studies; History of Education; History; Local government; Femininity; Working Classes; Middle Class Education; Masculinity; Radicalism; Middle Classes; Social & Cultural History; The role of women in policy-making has been largely neglected in conventional social and political histories. This book opens up this field of study, taking the example of women in education as its focus. It examines the work, attitudes, actions and philosophies of women who played a part in policy-making and administration in education in England over two centuries, looking at women engaged at every level from the local school to the state. Joyce Goodman is reader in the history of education at King Alfred's College, Winchester, where she is director of the Centre for Pedagogical Studies. She has published on women, education and authority, technical education for women and girls, and education, gender and colonialism.Sylvia Harrop is a senior fellow in the Department of Education at the University of Liverpool. She has written widely on the histories of adult and higher education and women's education, and is currently co-directing (with Joyce Goodman) a historical project on women and the governance of girls' secondary schools in Britain. |