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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"Quaker"”.
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Quaker Education in Ireland 1680 - 1840
… my aim has been to trace the development of Quaker education in Ireland from its beginnings in the late seventeenth century, up to the early decades of the nineteenth. I have begun by placing Quakerism in its historical context, and have examined briefly the origins of the movement in England …
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Quaker politics and industrial change c.1800-1850
This thesis explores early 19th century Quakers from the perspective of the social history of religion. It examines the ways in which Quaker organisation adapted to arid facilitated economic change, and in which Quackerism and Quaker politics developed to reflect and represent the new economic and …
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British Quaker women and peace, 1880s to 1920s
This thesis explores the lives of four British Quaker women—Isabella Ford, Isabel Fry, Margery Fry, and Ruth Fry—focusing on the way they engaged in peace issues in the early twentieth century. In order to examine the complexity and diversity of their experiences, this thesis investigates the …
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Influence of John Greenleaf Whittier's Quaker belief on his poetry
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1933. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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Educating Adults Through Distinctive Public Speaking: Lucretia Mott, Quaker Minister
… on her work as a nineteenth-century female Quaker minister who through public speaking educated adults about the following: abolition of slavery, rights of women, and peaceful ways to address injustice. Separate chapters explore each of these three vital issues. Lucretia Mott ranks as a …
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Brynmawr experiment 1928-1940 : Quaker values and arts and crafts principles
This is a study of the social work of Quakers in the town of Brynmawr in South Wales during the depressions of the 1920s and 1930s. The work, which took place during the years 1928 to 1940, has become known as the Brynmawr Experiment. The initial provision of practical and financial relief for a …
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Rethinking the Spiritual Dimension of Art Education: Exploring a Quaker Alternative Setting
… this qualitative study explored Scattergood Quaker high school at West Branch, Iowa, over a two-year period, 1998 to 2000. The main focus of the thesis addressed the following questions surrounding alternative settings as they hold to spirituality: Are alternative settings no more than …
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Reconsidering early modern English spiritual autobiography. Quaker women's self-writings in 17th-century England
This thesis examines the development of Quaker women’s self-representation in autobiographical writing in the early Quaker movement. It investigates the collective and communitarian value of women Friends’ autobiographical writing, as well as the theory that Quaker women authors had created a …
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Edward Cadbury – Paternalistic employer or Quaker-inspired pathfinder of British industrial relations pluralism and women workers’ champion?
… How far did Edward Cadbury have a distinctive Quaker approach to managing people, and what were the main elements of this approach? The question is addressed through three principal themes: First, the thesis challenges the idea that the company was run in any way as a form of narrow social …
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Bringing Lippard Back: Biblical Allusions, Narrative Structure, and the Treatment of Women in George Lippard's The Quaker City
… publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852 - The Quaker City; or, the Monks of Monk Hall. Despite producing such a popular and risqué novel, Lippard and his work have been curiously absent from the American literary and historical canon. In this paper I have chosen to focus on three aspects of the …
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REFLECTIONS ON LEADERSHIP AND DECISION-MAKING CHALLENGES DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: NARRATIVES OF UPPER DIVISION HEADS IN QUAKER SCHOOLS
… students and parents, as well as self-care. For Quaker school divisional principals accustomed to a participatory and collaborative style of leadership, the COVID-19 pandemic demanded new approaches to problem-solving. They needed to perform more top-down initiatives to address the rapidly …
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The community of intimacy: The spiritual beliefs and religious practices of adolescent quakers
… study of the current generation of adolescent Quakers. It examines and analyses their beliefs and values; individual and group practice and how the group functions. The research demonstrates that for the adolescent Quaker group belief is unimportant and non-definitional; values are broad and …
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Consensus decision-making at Guilford College: a case study analysis
The Quaker tradition of consensus decision-making provides a provocative approach to internal governance in Quaker related colleges and universities. Guilford College, a small, private, liberal arts college with Quaker roots in Greensboro, North Carolina, employs the consensus model in college …
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Settling and Laying Down: A Cultural History of Quakers in Savannah and Statesboro, Georgia
… some similarities and differences between two Quaker meetings in Southeast Georgia, the small but growing urban meeting in Savannah and a discontinued rural one in the small college town of Statesboro (that sometimes met in the village of Guyton). These case studies of local and personal …
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Elizabeth Drinker's Revolution
… the war. Chapter one portrays a wealthy Quaker women leading a privileged life whose main concern was the health and happiness of her family. She has little contact with matters outside of her immediate concern. The second chapter finds Elizabeth surrounded by tumult that the American …
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