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"An Odd Freak: The Woman Teacher": Oddnesses, Paradoxes, Dilemmas and Breakthroughs
Authors: Dalakoura, Aikaterini
Ziogou Karastergiou, Sidiroula
Reviewer: Bonidis, Kyriakos
Subject: HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > SPECIALIZED HISTORIES > HISTORY OF FEMINISM
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > EDUCATION AND EDUCATION SCIENCES > EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > EDUCATION AND EDUCATION SCIENCES > TEACHER EDUCATION
Keywords:
History Of Education
History Of Womens Education
Womens History
Gender History
Gender Identity
Sybjectivity And Gender
Women Primary Teachers
Paradoxes And Women Teachers
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Abstract:
In this chapter we present the so-called “paradox” of woman teacher and the women’s teaching profession and its consequences on the construction of women teachers’ identities and subjectivities. The chapter consists of two parts. In the first part the development of women teacher training system is presented, since it fuels the paradoxes and influences the construction of their identity and subjectivity: from their education in the “higher” girl schools, where no specific professional training is provided up to the creation of institutions of professional training (Didaskaleia). The course (from 1870 onwards) of their professional training in the two different areas (Greek state and orthodox communities) is presented separately. In the second part we present the contradictions and dilemmas women teachers face in their lives due to limited access to the public sphere, the discordance between work and marriage, the livelihood necessities, the utilisation of their literacy beyond teaching, and the stereotypical views and the caricaturish representations of the profession of women teachers. The chapter concludes with the presentation of the “other aspect”: namely, the terms created by the practicing of the profession for the transgression of socal/gendered limitations.
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Abstract
Pre-required knowledge

5.1 Introduction

521 Women teacher training
5.2.1 Women teachers in the beginning of the 19th century
5.2.2 General education as “professional” educational (1840 –end of1860s): Teachers’ training in the “high” school for girls
5.2.3 Professional education (1870-1933): Teachers training in the high schools for girls and in training colleges
5.2.3.1 Female teachers’ training in the Orthodox communities
5.2.3.1.1 Education-training in the high schools for girls
5.2.3.1.2 Education –training in the training colleges
5.2.3.2 Professional teachers’ education in the Greek state
5.2.3.2.1 Education-training in the girl-schools of “Philekpaideftiki Etaireia”
5.2.3.2.2 Education and training in the state teacher training colleges (1914-1929)

5.3 Oddnesses, paradoxes, dilemmas and breakthrough in the life and work of female teachers
5.3.1 Access to a public space with private sphere “features”
5.3.2 Paid work – marriage/family : conflicting choices and other consequences
5.3.3 Teaching as a livelihood activity: from being protected, supporter of the family
5.3.4 The “political” : participation and exclusions
5.3.5 «The teaching profession […] the most disconsolate and troublesome”
5.3.6 The other way round ….
5.3.7 Social representations of the “woman teacher”: caricatural depictions vs presentation of the multiplicity of her identities
5.4 Conclusions
Linguistic Editors: Apostoli, Persia
Technical Editors: Anapliotis, Dimitrios
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 2015
Item Details:
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr
Spatial Coverage: Greek state and orthodox communities of the Ottoman territories
Temporal Coverage: 19th century -interwar period
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/2589
Bibliographic Reference: Dalakoura, A., & Ziogou Karastergiou, S. (2015). "An Odd Freak: The Woman Teacher": Oddnesses, Paradoxes, Dilemmas and Breakthroughs [Chapter]. In Dalakoura, A., & Ziogou Karastergiou, S. 2015. Women's Education - Women in Education [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/2589
Language: Greek
Is Part of: Women's Education - Women in Education
Number of pages 40
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions