EDUC 3013 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Alice White, Mixed-Sex Education, Knitting
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Revolutionary america: new expectations for america"s citizens led to the idea of republican motherhood. Adventure schools in the late 1700s, adventure schools emerged. Consisted of a single teacher who taught whatever subjects were popular at the time. Subjects mostly included music dancing, and crafts. Academies : secondary schools for girls began to flourish in the 1800s and were called. Seneca falls and women"s rights: as the school systems grew, the us saw a shortage of teachers. At the time, most of the school teachers were male: at the seneca falls women"s rights conference in 1848, women called for coeducation in public schools. By 1860, most states had set up public school systems which grew rapidly. Most were coeducational and included both primary and secondary schools: the switch from private to public schooling in the late 1800s also creased a transformation in private schools.
