A History of Catholic Education and Schooling in ScotlandThe Role of Lay Women Teachers in Catholic Education Before the Education (Scotland) Act, 1918
A History of Catholic Education and Schooling in Scotland: The Role of Lay Women Teachers in...
McDermid, Jane
2019-05-24 00:00:00
[Religious orders were crucial for developing Catholic education but by 1918 only 4 per cent of Scotland’s Catholic elementary schoolteachers were members of the orders. Yet whereas the majority of lay teachers were female, they are either overlooked or under-represented in histories of Catholic education between the two Education (Scotland) Acts of 1872 and 1918. This chapter considers whether, despite their subordinate position and paucity of training—by 1894 when the first Catholic teacher training college was established in Scotland, two-thirds of lay female teachers did not hold certificates—the numerical predominance of these women in Catholic schools for the working class gave them scope to play a key role in implementing the Church’s strategy to enhance the respectability of a largely immigrant community.]
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A History of Catholic Education and Schooling in ScotlandThe Role of Lay Women Teachers in Catholic Education Before the Education (Scotland) Act, 1918
[Religious orders were crucial for developing Catholic education but by 1918 only 4 per cent of Scotland’s Catholic elementary schoolteachers were members of the orders. Yet whereas the majority of lay teachers were female, they are either overlooked or under-represented in histories of Catholic education between the two Education (Scotland) Acts of 1872 and 1918. This chapter considers whether, despite their subordinate position and paucity of training—by 1894 when the first Catholic teacher training college was established in Scotland, two-thirds of lay female teachers did not hold certificates—the numerical predominance of these women in Catholic schools for the working class gave them scope to play a key role in implementing the Church’s strategy to enhance the respectability of a largely immigrant community.]
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