The Private Schooling of Girls

Past and Present

Geoffrey Walford

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000938524
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Hitherto only a small proportion of the research on private education has been on the schooling of girls. Debate on the subject, while often heated, even prejudiced, proceeds largely in ignorance of the historical development of private schooling, the currently changing nature of private schooling, and the wide diversity of provision of private schooling. This collection of previously unpublished essays presents important new research on the history and development of girls' private schools, their present role and the experience of privately educated girls. Taken together, the findings are both enlightening and likely to stimulate further exploration of this surprisingly under-researched area.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Abbreviations
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 Girls’ Private Schooling: Past and Present
• 2 ‘Playing the Game’ and ‘Playing the Piano’: Physical Culture and Culture at Girls’ Public Schools, c. 1858-1914
• 3 Science Education in the Public Schools for Girls in the Late Nineteenth Century
• 4 The Beech-covered Hillside: Self-presentation in the Histories of the Girls’ Schools
• 5 Private Education and Political Socialization
• 6 Talk about Class in a Girls’ Public School
• 7 ‘We’re just here to make up the numbers really.’ The Experience of Girls in Boys’ Public Schools
• 8 Take Three Girls: A Comparison of Girls’ A-level Achievement in Three Types of Sixth Form within the Independent Sector
• 9 Religion in the Girls’ Independent Schools
• Index