Wesleyan Female College of Wilmington, Delaware: A College Before its Time?

Autor/in	Taggart, Robert J.
Titel	Wesleyan Female College of Wilmington, Delaware: A College Before its Time?
Quelle	In: American Educational History Journal, 35 (2008) 2, S.221-232 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1535-0584
Schlagwörter	Females; Seminars; Educational History; Curriculum Design; Single Sex Colleges; Womens Education; Delaware; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Seminar; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Lehrplangestaltung; 'Women''s education'; Frauenbildung; USA
Abstract	Opening in 1837, Wesleyan Female Seminary became by 1855 one of the small number of colleges for women in the United States. The question is to what extent Wesleyan was a true college as that word was understood at the time, along with the wider issue of what constituted a college as the concept became transformed during the nineteenth century. In his famous study, Thomas Woody was unimpressed with the early female colleges (Woody 1929). However, he overestimated the permanence of the definition of a college as an institution which was, in fact, evolving in its curriculum and purpose as noted by the expansion of both electives and scientific studies in men's colleges of the middle 19th century (Brubacher and Rudy 1958, chap. 6). In this article, the author talks about the Wesleyan Female College of Wilmington, Delaware, explores its history and details how Wesleyan became a college. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10