The forgotten contribution of the teaching sisters - Bart Hellinckx, Frank Simon, Marc Depaepe - eBook (9789461660503)

For far too long Catholic teaching sisters have been denied their rightful place in the history of education. It is only during the past twenty-five years that researchers in many countries have begun to reveal the fundamental role played by these women in the schooling of children of both the masses and the elite during the 19th and 20th centuries...