Voorbeelden van schoolmistress

• This interest in child-centred methods was not confined to the members of the schoolmistresses' associations.

• None of the schoolmistresses in the study publicly questioned the belief that women shared an essentially feminine nature, which differentiated them from men.

• Earlier in the century, schoolmistresses had been recruited from a fairly wide spectrum of middle-class backgrounds, though professional families were predominant.

• However, by the 1840s, calls for the more systematic education of schoolmistresses and governesses were multiplying.

• The schoolmistresses' organizations helped to reinforce teachers' sense of the importance of their work, and stimulated the growing feeling of shared identity and professional authority.

• Evidence from the lives of the schoolmistresses in the study suggests that many self-consciously sought some kind of preparation for their work.

• Other schoolmistresses showed a clear interest in discussing educational matters.

• However, many schoolmistresses were claiming a new authority and affirming their expertise in educational matters.

• A corollary was the growing importance schoolmistresses attached to undergoing some form of specialized training.

• A number of the schoolmistresses in the study contributed to this genre.

• The support of schoolmistresses for teacher training challenged conservative notions of femininity and offered women the possibility of a valued professional existence outside the home.

• The term ' governess ' was commonly used interchangeably with ' schoolmistress ' before the 1870s.

• This interpretation ignores the long-standing interest of many schoolmistresses in ' the science and art of education ' as well as their commitment to making teaching a professional career for women.

• Another method by which middle-class schoolmistresses obtained training is particularly surprising given the historiographical emphasis on the social divide between elementary and secondary or middle-class education.

• Many of the eighty-three schoolmistresses in the study consciously restricted the number of pupils they would take and sought to compare their institutions to a family or home.