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Education For Girls In The House Of The Good Shepherd, U.S. 1940-1980, Nancymarie Phillips
Education For Girls In The House Of The Good Shepherd, U.S. 1940-1980, Nancymarie Phillips
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Convent education has sought to impart a set of moral values that would lead to a productive life, both spiritually and socially. The foundress of the Good Shepherd Sisters started a convent-based social service institution for vulnerable women and girls in Europe that evolved into a postsecondary education system in the United States for adolescent girls remanded by the judicial system. Convent education has been an underresearched area in the history of American education, and this dissertation takes parochial education for girls into account in the broad sweep of American educational developments. This historical study utilizes archival research, oral histories, …