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Based on interviews with young Australian girls who lived in Sacred Heart convent boarding schools between 1940 and 1965, this illuminating study provides insight into the Catholic model of education before Vatican 11, when obedience, conformity, and repression were used to teach young girls how to …
Growing Good Catholic Girls: Education and Convent Life in Australia
Education and Convent Life in Australia
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160 pages
- Release Date
1 January 1970
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Summary
Until the 1960s most Catholic girls in Australia were educated in convents. Here, the author offers an illuminating study of life in one such school from the mid-1940s to 1965, based on interviews with a number of former students and nuns.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522850550 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522850553 |
| Author: | Christine Trimingham Jack |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 January 1970 |
| Weight: | 236g |
| Dimensions: | 11mm x 160mm x 233mm |
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About The Author
Christine Trimingham Jack
Christine Trimingham Jack is the head of primary education at the University of Canberra. As a girl, she attended a number of schools run by the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
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