The collection mainly consists of a set of Isabel Fry's personal diaries and notebooks dating from 1878-1958. These are supplemented by letters to her friend Eugénie Dubois, c1930-1958, and a few publications and photographs. The diaries reflect all aspects of her life and career including her teaching activities and educational ideas; her preoccupations with political and social affairs, including political reform and emancipation in the East and in Turkey and Persia; her friendships with liberal intellectuals; and her involvement with anti-militarist movements, slum clearance, socialism and feminism. Also included are details of her relationship with her family, friends and their wider social circle.
Fry , Isabel , 1869-1958 , educationist, social worker and reformerElements area
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- General term for schemes which offer an alternative to traditional institutional education or for movements which reject the notion of formal schooling.
- Terme générique qui désigne les diverses formules offrant une solution alternative à l'éducation institutionnelle traditionnelle, ainsi que les mouvements qui rejettent la notion d'éducation formelle.
- Término general empleado para designar a las diversas fórmulas que ofrecen una alternativa a las instituciones de educación tradicionales, así como a los movimientos que rechazan la noción de educación formal.
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Alternative education
Alternative education
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Alternative education
- UF Anticurriculum movement
- UF Deschooling
- UF Educational alternatives
- UF Déscolarisation
- UF Éducation nouvelle
- UF Enseignement alternatif
- UF Mouvement éducatif alternatif
- UF Descolarización
- UF Enseñanza alternativa
- UF Nueva educación