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Addressing the Apparent Paradox of the Catholic Sister Principal: 1940-1965
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O'Donoghue, Tom; Harford, Judith – History of Education, 2013
A body of scholarship on the history of the lives of Catholic teaching sisters has thrown up various challenges to educational historians. One challenge can be posed by asking how teaching sisters were able to go on to take up leadership positions. This is prompted by the observation that a particular body of literature for the period 1940-1965…
Descriptors: Nuns, Educational History, Foreign Countries, Catholic Schools
The Conception, Construction, and Maintenance of the Identity of Roman Catholic Female Religious Teachers: A Historical Case Study from Ireland
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O'Donoghue, Tom; Harford, Judith – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2014
Over the last three decades, there has been a burgeoning of research on teacher identity. While the various bodies of work produced are very valuable, further lines of enquiry need to be pursued in order to take account of the complexities involved. This paper on the conception, construction, and maintenance of the identity of Roman Catholic…
Descriptors: Catholic Educators, Professional Identity, Foreign Countries, Educational History