Gender and education in Early Modern Period
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- Created on: 22-05-18 13:23
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- Gender and education in Early Modern Period (according to Bernard Capp)
- Parents, knowing gender would be a major factor in their child's future, raised children accordingly
- Usually for boys
- Informal 'dame' or charity schools taught reading, writing and basic religious principles
- Formal schooling kept primarily for boys
- Girls
- Steered towards practical skills
- Sewing
- Embroidery
- Steered towards practical skills
- Usually for boys
- According to Wiesner, in Italy:
- survey of schools in Venice in 1587-88 found:
- Male pupils
- 4,600
- Female pupils
- 30
- Male pupils
- survey of schools in Venice in 1587-88 found:
- In Electoral Saxony
- 50% of parishes had licensed schools for boys by 1580
- 10% of parishes had licensed schools for girls
- attended only for short periods and received narrow, mainly practical education
- Schools in England
- Grammar schools were for boys
- Teacher appointed to school at Crosby, nr. Liverpool, in 1651
- Resigned due to being horrified by the 'barbarity' of some parents wanting their daughters to also attend
- Girls' boarding schools
- Began to spread from mid-17th Century
- Especially nr. London
- Syllabus geared more to music and dancing than to academic study
- Literacy rates
- In England
- Only 10% of women could write their names in early C17th
- Even Shakespeare's daughter learned only to read, not to write
- According to Hufton
- In Amsterdam
- Known for relatively good educational provision
- Quarter of men and half women marrying in 1730 could not sign their names
- In Amsterdam
- In England
- Among landed elite, girls were educated at home by private tutors
- Some became highly accomplished, especially in Renaissance Period
- No one envisaged young women going to university
- Education was about absorbing values as well as skills
- Concepts of honour and reputation remained firmly gender-based
- For women
- Chastity and fidelity were everywhere the prerequisites for a good name
- While qualities such as thrift and good neighbourliness might win praise
- Could not restore reputation ruined by sexual promiscuity
- For men
- Good name rested on wider range of attributes
- Courage
- ability to maintain and govern household
- 'honesty' in honouring promises and debts
- According to Shepherd and Davis
- Young single men sometimes developed very different codes of honour
- Based on prowess in fighting, sport, drinking and womanising
- Young single men sometimes developed very different codes of honour
- Good name rested on wider range of attributes
- Parents, knowing gender would be a major factor in their child's future, raised children accordingly
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