The Forgotten Contribution of the Teaching Sisters

Hellinckx, Bart; Simon, Frank; Depaepe, Marc

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“…This brings one back to the position noted already, namely, the need for historical studies on teachers, including Catholic teachers. Regarding the latter, a certain amount of work, summarized by Hellinckx, Simon and Depaepe (2009), has been undertaken on nuns, while O'Donoghue (2013) has summarized what has been undertaken on religious brothers as teachers. Very little, however, has been undertaken on lay teachers.…”

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The Experience of Being a Lay Teacher in Catholic Schools: An Approach for Investigating the History of an Under-researched Field

O’Donoghue

2018

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Internationally, there has been a major output of empirical research on Catholic education over the last two decades. However, it has not been accompanied by a similar corpus of related work indicating possible new directions such research could take, including those that could be undertaken by using a diverse range of methodologies on a wide range of topics neglected to date. This paper indicates one such direction that could be taken in relation to historical research on lay teachers in Catholic schools from the 1940s to the present. First, the historiographical work that has been undertaken on the history of teachers more broadly is considered. An overview on the official status of the laity and the lay teacher historically within the Church is then considered. Finally, an argument for the use of a «life story» research approach for the generation of research questions to investigate the experience of being a lay teacher in Catholic schools. The approach is suitable for «insider research», where the focus is on investigating issues that were of concern for participants, rather than on pursuing pre-ordained questions of interest to the researcher and which usually arise primarily from a reading of the relevant background literature only.

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The Experience of Being a Lay Teacher in Catholic Schools: An Approach for Investigating the History of an Under-researched Field

O’Donoghue

2018

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“…17–18). As the increasing body of knowledge on women religious who were active in education in the past has revealed, the study of the professional identity of these teaching sisters requires attention for various aspects of their work (Bruno‐Jofré, ; Hellinckx, Simon, & Depaepe, ; Smyth, ). Also for Ida Frye, her task as a teaching sister was determined by the relationship between devotion to religious vows on the one hand and on the other a dedication to the more worldly aims of a career in care and education of children.…”

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Rethinking the origins of autism: Ida Frye and the unraveling of children's inner world in the Netherlands in the late 1930s

Drenth¹

2017

J History Behavioral Science

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Historiographies on the phenomenon of "autism" display Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger as the great pioneers. The recent controversy on who was first in "discovering" autism urges research into the question of how scientific discoveries relate to processes of academic reflection and social intervention. The Netherlands provide an interesting case in pioneering work in autism, since Dutch experts described autism in children already in the late 1930s, preceding the first publications on autism in children by Kanner and Asperger. This paper examines the Dutch origins of autism by focusing on IdaFrye's contribution to the teamwork at the Paedological Institute in Nijmegen, which resulted in descriptions of children with autism.The theoretical aim of this paper is to underline the importance of the productive interplay between social interventions and scientific efforts concerning the complex inner world of special children. INTRODUCTIONHistoriographies of the phenomenon of "autism" point to two men as the pioneers of the medical practices that paved the way to the "discovery" of autism in the late 1930s. 1 In her Autism: A Very Short Introduction, Uta Frith (2008, p. 20) refers to "the story" that is told time and again. The most prominent pioneer is the Austro-Hungarian psychiatrist Leo Kanner (1894Kanner ( -1981, whose publication on children with "autistic disturbances of affective contact" was published in the U.S. journal Nervous Child in 1943. The other pioneer, whose medical work resulted in a publication describing autism in children in 1944, was the Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger . His observations of "autistischen Psychopathen" in their childhood were published in the journal Archiv für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten in 1944. What has puzzled various scholars, however, is whether and how there was any relationship between the two pioneers (Lyons & Fitzgerald, 2007;Sanders, 2009). This seems to be important because, as Sam Fellowes (2015, p. 2274) recently put it: "The issue at stake is simple: who first described autism?" Both the claim that Asperger himself used the term "autistic" in his work with special children already in 1934 (Feinstein, 2010, p. 7), and that he inspiredKanner directly in a lecture given Vienna in 1938 entitled "Das psychisch abnormale Kind" (Lyons & Fitzgerald, 2007), favor the conclusion that Asperger and not Kanner was the first to note and thus to discover autism as a new entity, (2015, p. 2247), Kanner could have been influenced by a different article altogether, namely one written by a woman, the New York based child psychiatrist Louise Despert, who published an article on "Schizophrenia in children" in 1938. She discussed children diagnosed with this mental disorder, some of them from birth onwards. Their characteristics showed a close resemblance to specific aspects that Kanner observed in his children with problems. According to Fellowes (2015Fellowes ( , pp. 2275Fellowes ( -2276 The aim of this paper is to add a new example of pioneering work in autism in...

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The “Third Wave” is Digital: Researching Histories of Women Religious in the Twenty-first Century

Raftery¹

2017

American Catholic Studies

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The Forgotten Contribution of the Teaching Sisters

Cited by 3 publications

References 35 publications

The Experience of Being a Lay Teacher in Catholic Schools: An Approach for Investigating the History of an Under-researched Field

The Experience of Being a Lay Teacher in Catholic Schools: An Approach for Investigating the History of an Under-researched Field

Rethinking the origins of autism: Ida Frye and the unraveling of children's inner world in the Netherlands in the late 1930s

The “Third Wave” is Digital: Researching Histories of Women Religious in the Twenty-first Century

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