Female teachers - the ferrywomen of transitional education

Verginella, Marta (author)

In the transition periods after both world wars, education was recognized as one of the most important areas of activity of the new state authorities in the north-eastern Adriatic areas, in what are now north-eastern Italy, Slovenia, south-eastern Austria, and Croatia. The postwar school authorities pursued a common national socialization project directed at the youngest members of the population. This project, in addition to establishing national primacy within the framework of state nation-building, also involved ideological adaptation. Educating the young was one of the most important objectives of the transition policies after both the First and Second World Wars. The arrival and placement of new teaching staff was usually accompanied by the dismissal, blackmail, and/ or persecution of those who were teaching before the war and also by their voluntary departure, triggered by the war and the postwar realities. A comparison of the actions of school authorities in the transition periods shows that nationality or political orientation played a greater role than gender in discriminatory and repressive practices. The article shows that in the context of school transition policies, younger women teachers played a special role, especially in the newly conquered areas, as they were able to devote themselves to a greater extent to teaching and also to extra-curricular work. They were identified as best suited to implement the new postwar school policy and to change the previous frameworks, both mentally and linguistically.

• Language: English
• Keywords: teachers, women's work, North-eastern Adriatic, postwar transitions, 20 century, women's history
• Typology: 1.16 - Independent Scientific Component Part or a Chapter in a Monograph
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 33-59
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-170317
• UDC: 94(4)"19"
• DOI: 10.5117/9789633867518
• COBISS.SI-ID: 232791811

Copyright

Licenca Creative Commons je navedena v kolofonu publikacije (glej izvorni URL). (Datum opombe 3. 7. 2025)

• Publication date in RUL: 03.07.2025

Record is a part of a monograph

• Title: Women and work in the North-Eastern Adriatic : postwar transitions
• Editors: Marta Verginella, Urška Strle
• Place of publishing: Budapest
• Publisher: CEU Press, Central European University Press
• ISBN: 978-963-386-751-8
• COBISS.SI-ID: 232405763
• Collection title: Work and labor - transdisciplinary studies for the 21st century
• Collection numbering: ǂvol. ǂ5
• Collection ISSN: 2732-1118

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• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Description: The most restrictive Creative Commons license. This only allows people to download and share the work for no commercial gain and for no other purposes.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: učiteljice, žensko delo, severovzhodni jadranski prostor, povojne tranzicije, 20.st., ženska zgodovina

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Project number: 742683
• Name: Post-war trasistions in gendered perspective: the case of the North-Eastern Adricatic Region
• Acronym: EIRENE

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: J6-50190-2023
• Name: Zgodovina ženskega dela v 19. in 20. stoletju na Slovenskem