Browsing Education Journal Articles by Author "47895"
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Creating spaces in a male domain: Sister Principals in Catholic schools, 1850-1974
Collins, Jennifer (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2014-12-02)This paper builds on recent scholarship on the gendered nature of educational work to argue that while conceptualisations of the principalship are underpinned by scholarship and policy assumptions that construct the work ... -
Knowledge transfer, educational change and the history of education : new theoretical frameworks
Collins, Jennifer; Allender, Tim (Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2013)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a theoretical overview of the field of knowledge transfer and educational change and a discussion of the issues raised in the six papers in this special edition. Design/ ... -
They came with a purpose : educational journeys of nineteenth-century Irish Dominican Sister Teachers
Collins, Jennifer (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2014-12-02)Irish Catholic teaching sisters were major actors in the development of education systems in New World countries such as the United States, Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Immigrants themselves, they faced ... -
To the "very Antipodes" : nineteenth century Dominican Sister-teachers in Ireland and New Zealand
Collins, Jennifer (Routledge, 2013-07-02)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 ...