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    To the "very Antipodes" : nineteenth century Dominican Sister-teachers in Ireland and New Zealand

    Collins, Jennifer

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    2013-07-02
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    Collins, J. (2013). To the "very antipodes" : nineteenth century Dominican Sister-teachers in Ireland and New Zealand. Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education. 49(4) : 494-512
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    Abstract
    This paper examines the educational and religious lives of Dominican Sisters in nineteenth-century Ireland and New Zealand. It considers developments in Irish society and culture that shaped the educational mission of Dominican Sisters, as well as some of the challenges facing 10 Sisters who, in 1871, journeyed from Dublin to establish a foundation in Dunedin, New Zealand. Drawing on previously unpublished archival sources, including Sisters’ letters “home” to Ireland, this paper explores ways in which the expectations of the Founder Sisters were initially shaped by “Old World” social and cultural structures and their dependence on their motherhouse in Sion Hill, Dublin. It examines changes in the lives of Sisters as their links with Ireland diminished and they began to reshape their educational mission around a new cultural and religious identity. This paper challenges educational historians to acknowledge the role Catholic sister-teachers played in the formation of national education systems.
    Keywords:
    nineteenth-century, Ireland and New Zealand, religious and cultural identity, new archival sources, national education systems, Sister teachers, Dominican Sisters
    ANZSRC Field of Research:
    220202 History and Philosophy of Education
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    Routledge
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