Stephanie Spencer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3990966 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephanie Spencer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Spencer |
| SIGNATURE | SPENCER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Winchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6394-8574 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Out of the classroom: ‘Informal’ Education and Histories of Education
Historians of education are well placed to engage in applied historical approaches providing authoritative evidence of the past to inform policy and practice. This article is based on the presidential keynote delivered at the History of Education Society (UK) annual conference in 2019. As such it reflects on possible future directions for the history of education and considers the role of informal educational activity that takes place outside the…
Guiding Modern Girls: Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s and 30s by Kristine Alexander
Reviewed by: Guiding Modern Girls: Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s and 30s by Kristine Alexander Stephanie Spencer Alexander, Kristine – Guiding Modern Girls: Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s and 30s. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017. Pp. 283. When the pupils of Eleanor Brent-Dyer's fictional Chalet School ask their headmistress permission to start a Girl Guide Company in Jo of the Chalet School (1926), she observ…
British and American School Stories, 1910–1960: Fiction, Femininity, and Friendship
Sewing, Fighting and Writing: Radical practices in work, politics and culture, by Maria Tamboukou
Imagining a future, living in the present and remembering the past
The remit for this short piece was to identify themes emerging from the articles in this edition by Julie McLeod, Duncan Waite and Eugenie Samier, to consider how these themes reflect on the current field, and to identify their ongoing relevance. Additionally, I was asked to consider the current challenges that the field is facing and what this means for research and journals such as this one. My short response is that our research has to matter.…
Revisioning the History of Girls and Women in Britain in the Long 1950s
This Special Issue of Women's History Review challenges popular assumptions about girls and women in the 1950s, and about the 1950s as the quiet patch when women returned to the home and domestic d
Cosmopolitan Sociability in the British and International Federations of University Women, 1945-1960
The article highlights the significance of sociability in the activities of the British and International Federations of University Women in the long 1950s. Much of the activity centred on Crosby Hall, the ‘International Clubhouse’ in London for overseas and British graduate women. Ideas of cosmopolitanism and sociability can be traced back to the Enlightenment. The article draws on Glick Schiller et al.'s discussion of cosmopolitan sociability i…
No “fear of flying”? Worrals of the Waaf, fiction, and girls’ informal wartime education
This article focuses on the series of 11 books about a young female pilot, Worrals of the WAAF, by W.E. Johns, creator of Biggles. The Worrals books were published from 1941 when recruitment for the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force was falling. Johns chose to ignore that the WAAF supported pilots through their work on the ground and did not themselves fly. The article discusses how historians of education can draw on fiction in order to identify aspec…
Women's University Fiction, 1880-1945Anna Bogen
Warning: this book may seriously add to your reading list. Anna Bogen's review of novels written between 1880 and 1945 covers a range of familiar, and not so familiar, narratives of women's experie
Boarding School Fictions: Schoolgirls' Own Communities of Learning
This article explores the fictional world of the schoolgirl annual in the interwar period and the significance of the imagined girls'-only spaces for their intended readership. The article takes the year 1929, the year of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, and focuses on two annuals designed for the 12–15 market: School Friend and Schoolgirls' Own. The annual compendium of stories, a very British invention, drew on characters whose adventures …
Educational administration, history and ‘gender as a useful category of historical analysis’
Nearly 25 years ago Joan Scott reviewed the progress of historical analysis that foregrounded gender as an analytical category. Her article in The American Historical Review has become one of the landmark expressions of the state of the field. While historical approaches utilising gender frameworks have become quite commonplace, this issue of Journal of Educational Administration and History demonstrates that the gender debate is by no means over…
Girls at risk. Early school‐leaving and early marriage in the 1950s
Britain in the 1950s offered increased opportunities for secondary education leading to better career prospects at a time of full employment. A government report into early leaving in 1954 noted that it was girls of all social classes who were most ‘at risk’ of not staying the course. The following article discusses first the nature of risk and suggests that for girls perhaps, staying at school and delaying marriage, at a time when unequal pay an…
The Lady Visitors at Queen's College: From the back of the class to a seat on the council
L'article etudie le role croissant des femmes au sein du Queen's College a partir de 1950 dans un environnement traditionnellement masculin, grâce a l'usage entre autres d'une rhetorique base sur un maternalisme social dans un contexte patriarcal rigide
Earning and learning in women's history
Bedford, Francis
Rejlander, O(scar) G(ustav)
Schoolgirl to Career Girl. The City as Educative Space
This article explores the way in which the "city" Throughout this article "city" functions both as place and representation. was represented in popular imaginations as the site where the metamorphosis from girl to woman could be achieved in late 1950s England. It uses a socio-semiotic theoretical framework in order to tease out the relationship between the city as an imagined space and the actual experience of living or working in the city. The a…
Women in teacher training colleges, 1900-1960: A Culture of Femininity
Advice and ambition in a girls' public day school: The case of Sutton high school, 1884-1924
This article discusses the role played by founders, staff and girls in establishing a new direction for English middle-class girls' education in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The source material is from a case study of the archives of one of the Girls' Day School Trust (GDST) schools. The research used both qualitative and quantitative methodology, with the bulk of evidence being drawn from the school magazine. The focus is s…
Francis Bedford's photographs of North Wales: Selection and interpretation
Francis Bedford (1816–1894) was one of the most respected photographers of the British landscape in mid-nineteenth century England. Although he photographed extensively throughout Great Britain, North Wales was one of his favourite regions. The photographs taken there are representative of Bedford's work as a whole, and an analysis of this group contributes to the understanding of how and why Bedford selected specific sites, how he interpreted th…
Art and photography: Two studies by O. G. Rejlander
Two photographs by Oscar Gustav Rejlander previously thought to be autonomous, self-contained compositions can now be correctly identified as copies after Old Master paintings. The accurate identification of these images not only adds information about Rejlander's sources and working method but also sheds light on his ideas concerning the interrelationship of fine art and photography
Educational administration, history and ‘gender as a useful category of historical analysis’
Nearly 25 years ago Joan Scott reviewed the progress of historical analysis that foregrounded gender as an analytical category. Her article in The American Historical Review has become one of the landmark expressions of the state of the field. While historical approaches utilising gender frameworks have become quite commonplace, this issue of Journal of Educational Administration and History demonstrates that the gender debate is by no means over…
The Lady Visitors at Queen's College: From the back of the class to a seat on the council
L'article etudie le role croissant des femmes au sein du Queen's College a partir de 1950 dans un environnement traditionnellement masculin, grâce a l'usage entre autres d'une rhetorique base sur un maternalisme social dans un contexte patriarcal rigide
Advice and ambition in a girls' public day school: The case of Sutton high school, 1884-1924
This article discusses the role played by founders, staff and girls in establishing a new direction for English middle-class girls' education in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The source material is from a case study of the archives of one of the Girls' Day School Trust (GDST) schools. The research used both qualitative and quantitative methodology, with the bulk of evidence being drawn from the school magazine. The focus is s…
Revisioning the History of Girls and Women in Britain in the Long 1950s
This Special Issue of Women's History Review challenges popular assumptions about girls and women in the 1950s, and about the 1950s as the quiet patch when women returned to the home and domestic d
Art and photography: Two studies by O. G. Rejlander
Two photographs by Oscar Gustav Rejlander previously thought to be autonomous, self-contained compositions can now be correctly identified as copies after Old Master paintings. The accurate identification of these images not only adds information about Rejlander's sources and working method but also sheds light on his ideas concerning the interrelationship of fine art and photography
Francis Bedford's photographs of North Wales: Selection and interpretation
Francis Bedford (1816–1894) was one of the most respected photographers of the British landscape in mid-nineteenth century England. Although he photographed extensively throughout Great Britain, North Wales was one of his favourite regions. The photographs taken there are representative of Bedford's work as a whole, and an analysis of this group contributes to the understanding of how and why Bedford selected specific sites, how he interpreted th…
Advice and ambition in a girls' public day school: The case of Sutton high school, 1884-1924
This article discusses the role played by founders, staff and girls in establishing a new direction for English middle-class girls' education in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The source material is from a case study of the archives of one of the Girls' Day School Trust (GDST) schools. The research used both qualitative and quantitative methodology, with the bulk of evidence being drawn from the school magazine. The focus is s…
Women in teacher training colleges, 1900-1960: A Culture of Femininity
Bedford, Francis
Rejlander, O(scar) G(ustav)
Schoolgirl to Career Girl. The City as Educative Space
This article explores the way in which the "city" Throughout this article "city" functions both as place and representation. was represented in popular imaginations as the site where the metamorphosis from girl to woman could be achieved in late 1950s England. It uses a socio-semiotic theoretical framework in order to tease out the relationship between the city as an imagined space and the actual experience of living or working in the city. The a…
The Lady Visitors at Queen's College: From the back of the class to a seat on the council
L'article etudie le role croissant des femmes au sein du Queen's College a partir de 1950 dans un environnement traditionnellement masculin, grâce a l'usage entre autres d'une rhetorique base sur un maternalisme social dans un contexte patriarcal rigide
Earning and learning in women's history
Girls at risk. Early school‐leaving and early marriage in the 1950s
Britain in the 1950s offered increased opportunities for secondary education leading to better career prospects at a time of full employment. A government report into early leaving in 1954 noted that it was girls of all social classes who were most ‘at risk’ of not staying the course. The following article discusses first the nature of risk and suggests that for girls perhaps, staying at school and delaying marriage, at a time when unequal pay an…
Educational administration, history and ‘gender as a useful category of historical analysis’
Nearly 25 years ago Joan Scott reviewed the progress of historical analysis that foregrounded gender as an analytical category. Her article in The American Historical Review has become one of the landmark expressions of the state of the field. While historical approaches utilising gender frameworks have become quite commonplace, this issue of Journal of Educational Administration and History demonstrates that the gender debate is by no means over…
Boarding School Fictions: Schoolgirls' Own Communities of Learning
This article explores the fictional world of the schoolgirl annual in the interwar period and the significance of the imagined girls'-only spaces for their intended readership. The article takes the year 1929, the year of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, and focuses on two annuals designed for the 12–15 market: School Friend and Schoolgirls' Own. The annual compendium of stories, a very British invention, drew on characters whose adventures …
Women's University Fiction, 1880-1945Anna Bogen
Warning: this book may seriously add to your reading list. Anna Bogen's review of novels written between 1880 and 1945 covers a range of familiar, and not so familiar, narratives of women's experie
No “fear of flying”? Worrals of the Waaf, fiction, and girls’ informal wartime education
This article focuses on the series of 11 books about a young female pilot, Worrals of the WAAF, by W.E. Johns, creator of Biggles. The Worrals books were published from 1941 when recruitment for the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force was falling. Johns chose to ignore that the WAAF supported pilots through their work on the ground and did not themselves fly. The article discusses how historians of education can draw on fiction in order to identify aspec…
Sewing, Fighting and Writing: Radical practices in work, politics and culture, by Maria Tamboukou
Imagining a future, living in the present and remembering the past
The remit for this short piece was to identify themes emerging from the articles in this edition by Julie McLeod, Duncan Waite and Eugenie Samier, to consider how these themes reflect on the current field, and to identify their ongoing relevance. Additionally, I was asked to consider the current challenges that the field is facing and what this means for research and journals such as this one. My short response is that our research has to matter.…
Revisioning the History of Girls and Women in Britain in the Long 1950s
This Special Issue of Women's History Review challenges popular assumptions about girls and women in the 1950s, and about the 1950s as the quiet patch when women returned to the home and domestic d
Cosmopolitan Sociability in the British and International Federations of University Women, 1945-1960
The article highlights the significance of sociability in the activities of the British and International Federations of University Women in the long 1950s. Much of the activity centred on Crosby Hall, the ‘International Clubhouse’ in London for overseas and British graduate women. Ideas of cosmopolitanism and sociability can be traced back to the Enlightenment. The article draws on Glick Schiller et al.'s discussion of cosmopolitan sociability i…
British and American School Stories, 1910–1960: Fiction, Femininity, and Friendship
Guiding Modern Girls: Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s and 30s by Kristine Alexander
Reviewed by: Guiding Modern Girls: Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s and 30s by Kristine Alexander Stephanie Spencer Alexander, Kristine – Guiding Modern Girls: Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s and 30s. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017. Pp. 283. When the pupils of Eleanor Brent-Dyer's fictional Chalet School ask their headmistress permission to start a Girl Guide Company in Jo of the Chalet School (1926), she observ…
Out of the classroom: ‘Informal’ Education and Histories of Education
Historians of education are well placed to engage in applied historical approaches providing authoritative evidence of the past to inform policy and practice. This article is based on the presidential keynote delivered at the History of Education Society (UK) annual conference in 2019. As such it reflects on possible future directions for the history of education and considers the role of informal educational activity that takes place outside the…
Sociology (15 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · History (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (8 works) · Historical Education Studies Worldwide (7 works) · Politics (7 works)