The Ideological Origins of the Women's College
Religion, Class, and Curriculum in the Educational Visions of Catharine Beecher and Mary Lyon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9885219 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrea L Turpin (0009-0009-3509-3685, University of Notre Dame, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 133-158 |
| Publication date | 2010-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of Education Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2680 • E-ISSN: 1748-5959 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1748-5959.2010.00257.x |
| OpenAlex | W1881762115 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 10 |
In 1828, as the movement to improve educational opportunities for American women was gaining in prominence, Catharine Beecher approached first Mary Lyon, and a year later Lyon's associate Zilpah Grant, to join her as instructor at Hartford Female Seminary. Consonant with the era of optimistic reform in which she lived, Beecher believed Hartford could change the world, so she wanted the most well-known female educators on board. The key to Hartford's influence was to be the type of students it attracted. Beecher wrote to Grant that a “woman of piety and active benevolence, with wealth which enables her to take the lead in society, can do more good than another of equally exalted character without it.” Lyon and Grant both declined
Character (mathematics · Curriculum · Ideology · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Vision · Catholicism and Religious Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Education Studies Worldwide · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment · Religious studies · Religious Studies
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2023 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |