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The Argument for Sex-segregated Schooling The Argument for Sex-segregated Schooling
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The Dhaka Normal School The Dhaka Normal School
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The Christian Woman Teacher The Christian Woman Teacher
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Civilizing the Native Teacher Civilizing the Native Teacher
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Conclusion Conclusion
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5 Teaching Gender in the Colony
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Published:August 2011
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Abstract
This chapter diagnoses and suggests remedies to “improve” and “extend” female education in the colonies. The history of women teachers in colonial Bengal offers a significant contrast to the history of male teacher education. The difficulty of training women teachers offers a striking contrast to the popularity and status of women's education. The notion of the teacher as a kind of model for appropriate gendered behavior, introduced by evangelicals and increasingly taken up by bhadra society, created a demand for both single-sex schooling and female teachers to staff such schools. It was native Christian women, trained in mission schools, who came to dominate the female teaching profession well into the twentieth century. The decision to expand upper-caste women's education paradoxically created greater educational opportunities for lowercaste, non-Hindu women. The training of women teachers was one of the most successful missionary educational endeavors. Racial, castes, and class hierarchies fundamentally shaped the ways mission societies interacted with their female students.
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