Convenor contact CHWE@Winchester.ac.uk
We take a broad cultural definition of Education: one which transcends schooling to encompass learning and teaching (formal and informal) at any phase of the life-cycle, in any setting or historical period, including the recent past.
As an area of research and teaching the history of women's education generates projects across disciplinary boundaries and challenges both boundaries of knowledge and ways of seeing.
The Centre aims to develop a broad portfolio of research. Current areas of work focus on women and the governance of girls' education, girls and career choice, girls and examinations, women, religion and education, Quaker women and education, gendered history of music education, life history and women's educational writings, imperalism, democracy, national identities, and education.
Image courtesy of Manchester High School for Girls Archive (www.mhsgarchive.org).
Enquiries to Dr C Joy (0161 249 2267 or email: cjoy@mhsg.manchester.sch.uk).
We aim to:
- explore the gendered nature of educational provision,practice and thought
- apply gendered and/or feminist approaches to the history of (women's) education
- provide a sound evidence base for policy and practice in respect of education for women and girls
- offer education, training and opportunities for research study in the history of women's education
- foster an active research climate promote seminars, reading groups and conferences disseminate research findings to a range of appropriate audiences, including the professional.