Becoming women teachers: gender and primary teacher training in Ireland, 1922–1974
| dc.contributor.author | Harford, Judith | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Hyland, Áine | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-02-21T14:09:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-02-21T14:09:13Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Drawing on archival material and oral testimony of former students, this paper examines the lives and experiences of women in Catholic primary teacher training colleges in Ireland in the period 1922–1974. It commences with a brief overview of the historical context in which these colleges emerged, situating their development within the socio-political and cultural context of the emerging Free State and the changing primary school curriculum. Residential and single-sex, the paper argues that the colleges promoted a gendered ideology and culture of femininity which mirrored the conservative, nationalistic and ultramontane agenda of post-Independence Ireland. Paradoxically, while this often led to a limited, anti-intellectual experience and a hegemonic framing of women teachers’ professionalism, many graduates used their new-found professional status as teachers to embrace high-profile leadership roles in twentieth-century Ireland, often in male-dominated fields. © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. | en |
| dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
| dc.description.version | Published Version | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Harford, J. and Hyland, Á. (2023) 'Becoming women teachers: gender and primary teacher training in Ireland, 1922–1974', History of Education, 52(6), pp. 888–904. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2023.2218315 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/0046760X.2023.2218315 | en |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 904 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0046-760X | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1464-5130 | en |
| dc.identifier.issued | 6 | |
| dc.identifier.journaltitle | History of Education | en |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 888 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10468/17099 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 52 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Routledge | en |
| dc.rights | © 2023, the Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properlycited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) orwith their consent. | en |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Catholic | en |
| dc.subject | History | en |
| dc.subject | Ireland | en |
| dc.subject | Primary | en |
| dc.subject | Teacher training | en |
| dc.title | Becoming women teachers: gender and primary teacher training in Ireland, 1922–1974 | en |
| dc.type | Article (peer reviewed) | en |
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