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Ulrich Leitner – History of Education, 2024
In recent years, biographical interviews with former pupils have become important sources for boarding school history. This raises the question as to whether these retrospective sources can be combined with contemporary written material and how to go about that. This paper argues for a triangulation of written with oral sources and the related…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Catholic Schools, Students, Autobiographies
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Williams, Maria Patricia – History of Education, 2015
A schoolteacher from Lombardy, Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917), founded the Institute of Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (MSC) in 1880. It was one of the 185 female religious institutes established in Italy in the nineteenth century. In the newly unified Italy, Cabrini found opportunities to formulate progressive Catholic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Catholic Schools, Single Sex Schools, Womens Education