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Elementary Teacher Education In Pakistan: What Is Needed, Yatta Kanu, Muhammad Memon
Elementary Teacher Education In Pakistan: What Is Needed, Yatta Kanu, Muhammad Memon
Institute for Educational Development, Karachi
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"Education For Service": Gender, Class, & Professionalism At The Boston Normal School, 1870-1920, Ann Froines
"Education For Service": Gender, Class, & Professionalism At The Boston Normal School, 1870-1920, Ann Froines
Women’s and Gender Studies Faculty Publication Series
"Education for Service," and “The Truth Shall Make You Free,” are two aphorisms engraved in granite over doorways of the Boston Normal School (BNS) buildings on Huntington Avenue in Boston. One can argue that the history of women in the teaching profession, its paradoxical and conflicted reality, are reflected in the complex and contradictory meanings of these two aphorisms. Young women students at BNS were moving toward greater freedom or autonomy by taking advantage of the educational opportunity available to them in this city-supported, tuition-free teacher training institution. At the same time, they were providing a crucial social service sanctioned …