Ignored But Not Forgotten: The Work of Helen Bradford Thompson Woolley

Morse, Jane Fowler

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“…Alongside workload-related tensions, there was a significant financial concern: from 1927 to 1929, almost 25% of the annual appropriation from the LSRM fund was allocated to ‘the medical care of Mrs. Woolley’. 57 Available evidence suggests that the reasons for Woolley's dismissal were related to her chronic absence as the head of the Institute and the ensuing institutional instability, rather than part of the personal agenda of Dean Russell (Morse, 2002) or a gender issue (Rodkey, 2010).…”

Section: Consolidating a Venture For Training Psychologists: The Child Development Institute From 1929 To 1936mentioning

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“…Moreover, given that it was Woolley who recommended Meek as associate director, the implied umbrage in phrasing such as ‘ to add insult to her injury, her assistant, Lois Meek Stoltz [ sic ], was appointed to Woolley's position’ (Morse, 2002: 137; emphasis added) is clearly speculative. In any case, Lois Meek was formally appointed as director of the Institute in April 1930 but was announced only several weeks later.…”

Section: Consolidating a Venture For Training Psychologists: The Child Development Institute From 1929 To 1936mentioning

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“…It has been claimed that in 1931, a year after Woolley's resignation, ‘[Meek] Stoltz [ sic ] was moved over to the college when the institute was disbanded’ (Morse, 2002: 137). However, Meek had been assistant professor of education at the College since 1929.…”

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“… 25. Previous accounts of these events have mostly omitted Woolley's hospitalization (Morse, 2002) or dated it erroneously to 1926 (Cautin and Benjamin, 2012). …”

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An ‘ingenious system of practical contacts’: Historical origins and development of the Institute of Child Welfare Research at Columbia University's Teachers College (1922–36)

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During the first two decades of the 20th century, the expansion of private foundations and philanthropic initiatives in the United States converged with a comprehensive, nationwide agenda of progressive education and post-war social reconstruction that situated childhood at its core. From 1924 to 1928, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial was the main foundation behind the aggressive, systematic funding of the child development movement in North America. A pioneering institution, the Institute of Child Welfare Research, established in 1924 at Columbia's Teachers College, was the first Rockefeller-funded programme of its kind at an American university. The Institute was influential in helping set up a nationwide network of child welfare institutes at other universities. Twelve years later, it would also be the first of those institutes to close. Nonetheless, the Institute's context, emergence, and development have been overlooked or misrepresented by previous scholarship, which calls for a new, critical historical analysis. By drawing on a number of archival sources and unpublished materials, this paper offers a critical reconstruction of the Institute's internal, often unstable history, emphasizing its origins, members, and administrative changes. I argue that the demise of the Institute should be understood in the context of both the revision of philanthropic policies in the late 1920s and the Institute's singular emphasis on teaching and training over research. The resulting narrative allows for a deeper, more informed understanding of both the Institute's origins and its eventual folding.

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“… 25. Previous accounts of these events have mostly omitted Woolley's hospitalization (Morse, 2002) or dated it erroneously to 1926 (Cautin and Benjamin, 2012). …”

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“…Em 1925, Helen Thompson Wooley foi nomeada diretora do instituto, que passou a integrar as seções de pesquisas do college. Em 1905, Wooley havia publicado The mental traits of sex, que negava a diferença entre homens e mulheres concernente à inteligência e afirmava que a questão era social, e não biológica (Morse, 2002). Além disso, depois de concluir seu doutorado, trabalhou com Educação Profissional e Psicologia Infantil.…”

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Onde estavam as mulheres? O ensino superior nos Estados Unidos entre os séculos XIX e XX

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2019

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Este é um artigo de acesso aberto, licenciado por Creative Commons Atribuição 4.0 Internacional (CC BY 4.0), sendo permitidas reprodução, adaptação e distribuição desde que o autor e a fonte originais sejam creditados. Warde e Rocha-Onde estavam as mulheres? 69 Educação Unisinos-v.23, n. 1, janeiro-março 2019 perspectivas femininas no interior deste campo, um fator relevante para dimensionar a experiência dos brasileiros que viajaram para cursos de especialização naquele país.

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In the company of feminist science.

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APA Handbook of the Psychology of Women: Perspectives on Women's Private and Public Lives (Vol. 2).

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Ignored But Not Forgotten: The Work of Helen Bradford Thompson Woolley

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An ‘ingenious system of practical contacts’: Historical origins and development of the Institute of Child Welfare Research at Columbia University's Teachers College (1922–36)

An ‘ingenious system of practical contacts’: Historical origins and development of the Institute of Child Welfare Research at Columbia University's Teachers College (1922–36)

Onde estavam as mulheres? O ensino superior nos Estados Unidos entre os séculos XIX e XX

In the company of feminist science.

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