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Guidi, Pierre – History of Education, 2018
In 1897, four French Franciscan sisters arrived in Ethiopia, having been summoned there by the Capuchin missionaries. In 1925, they ran an orphanage, a dispensary, a leper colony and 10 schools with 350 girl students. The students were freed slaves, orphans and upper-class Ethiopian and European girls. After providing a brief background to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nuns, Educational History, Single Sex Schools

Garnier, Maurice A.; Hage, Jerald – Sociology of Education, 1991
Discusses a study of the effects of material incentives and institutionalized values upon the expansion of secondary school systems in France. Reports that class was more important than gender in determining expansion because state policies placed greater emphasis on emphasized class in determining supply. Concludes that state policy reinforced…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Females