Normal Schools of the Pacific Northwest: The Lifelong Impact of Extracurricular Club Activities on Women Students at Teacher-Training Institutions, 1890-1917

Authors

Karen J. Blair, Central Washington University

Document Type

Article

Department or Administrative Unit

History

Publication Date

Winter 2009

Abstract

Historical scholarship on the normal schools in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries has emphasized the curricular goals of these state-funded institutions. Yet the afterschool clubs at these institutions also held great importance in the lives of budding educators, both immediately and in the course of their careers. An examination of the two major types of groups that students were involved in—literary societies and service associations, both of which Washington State's three normal schools expected and sometimes required their enrollees to join—reveals several predictable and unpredictable immediate and long-term results.

Comments

This article was originally published in The Pacific Northwest Quarterly. The full-text article from the publisher can be found here.

Recommended Citation

Blair, Karen J. "Normal Schools of the Pacific Northwest: The Lifelong Impact of Extracurricular Club Activities on Women Students at Teacher-Training Institutions, 1890-1917." The Pacific Northwest Quarterly 101, no. 1 (Winter 2009/2010): 3-16. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25754058

Journal

The Pacific Northwest Quarterly

Rights

© 2009 University of Washington