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A History of the GirlThe Education of European and Chinese Girls at Home in the Nineteenth Century

A History of the Girl: The Education of European and Chinese Girls at Home in the Nineteenth Century [This chapter compares German and Chinese girls’ informal education in the nineteenth century. Although the role of formal schooling differed between these two contexts, we argue that more commonalities between the German and Chinese cases emerge by examining the crucial domain of home-based education. These commonalities include tension between cultivating talent and cultivating virtue, the use of exemplary lives as models for girls, and the importance of family relationships in girls’ learning. Thus in both cases the home was the critical site for reproducing the class-bound ideology of domesticity, as home-based education constituted the means by which knowledge, morality, and practical skills were produced and transmitted from generation to generation.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A History of the GirlThe Education of European and Chinese Girls at Home in the Nineteenth Century

Editors: O'Dowd, Mary; Purvis, June
Qin, Fang; Bruce, Emily
A History of the Girl — Apr 11, 2018
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Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
ISBN
978-3-319-69277-7
Pages
103 –122
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-69278-4_6
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[This chapter compares German and Chinese girls’ informal education in the nineteenth century. Although the role of formal schooling differed between these two contexts, we argue that more commonalities between the German and Chinese cases emerge by examining the crucial domain of home-based education. These commonalities include tension between cultivating talent and cultivating virtue, the use of exemplary lives as models for girls, and the importance of family relationships in girls’ learning. Thus in both cases the home was the critical site for reproducing the class-bound ideology of domesticity, as home-based education constituted the means by which knowledge, morality, and practical skills were produced and transmitted from generation to generation.]

Published: Apr 11, 2018

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