“Passing the baton”: legacy and leadership in convent schools in India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan

• Deirdre Raftery ^[1] ; Jyoti Atwal ^[2] ; Mags Liddy ^[1] ; Ruth Ferris ^[1] ; Seaneen Sloan ^[1] ; Marie Clarke ^[1]
  1. [1] University College Dublin

     University College Dublin

     Irlanda

     
  2. [2] Jawaharlal Nehru University

     Jawaharlal Nehru University

     India

     
• Localización: Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education, ISSN 0030-9230, Vol. 59, Nº. 6, 2023, págs. 1216-1233
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This article examines the historical backdrop to the involvement of teaching Sisters in convent schooling for girls in India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, since the late nineteenth century. It then explores how, as a consequence of a range of social changes, leadership in convent schools has changed in both countries, across the twentieth century. The Irish Sisters who founded and established these schools commenced “passing the baton” of convent school leadership to Indian and Pakistani women. The article draws on interviews to exam-ine ways in which successive generations of women in the study refer to the legacy of the past, and the issue of women in education leadership.