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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
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McDermid, Jane – History of Education, 2009
Catholics remained outside the Scottish educational system until 1918. The Church preferred mixed-sex infant schools and either single-sex schools or separate departments. In small towns and rural areas the schools were mixed-sex. Women were considered naturally best suited to teach infants and girls, but even in boys' schools, female assistants…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Municipalities, Single Sex Schools, Catholic Schools