ABSTRACT

In recent years, and particularly with the emergence of cultural history, historians of education have begun to adopt a wide variety of theoretical approaches to their scholarship. Notwithstanding this, cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) remains underutilised in the field of history of education, despite being employed widely in other domains of education research. This paper illustrates the way in which CHAT offers a valuable framework for identifying and illuminating broad sweeps of change in education at local, national, and international levels, specifically by interrogating a strike initiated by female students in a religious-run teacher training college in Ireland in the 1970s. What is particularly remarkable about that strike is that these women activists were protesting at a time when Irish society was at its most conservative, when Church control was at its zenith, and when women’s rights were most restricted. Yet, these women activists were not rising up against the male dominant hegemony. Rather, they were rising up against the female religious managers of the college. Our use of CHAT, thus, focused on patriarchy perpetuated by women on women.

摘要

近年来，特别是随着文化史的出现，教育史学家开始采用各种各样的理论方法来研究他们的学术研究。尽管如此，文化历史活动理论（CHAT）在教育史领域仍然没有得到充分利用，尽管它在教育研究的其他领域得到了广泛的应用。本文阐述了 CHAT 提供了一个有价值的框架的方式，用于识别和阐明地方、国家和国际层面的广泛教育变革，特别是通过询问爱尔兰一所宗教经营的师范学院的女学生发起的罢工在 1970 年代。这次罢工特别引人注目的是，这些女性活动家在爱尔兰社会最保守的时候抗议，当教会的控制达到顶峰，以及妇女的权利受到最大限制的时候。然而，这些女性活动家并没有反抗男性主导的霸权。相反，他们起来反对学院的女性宗教管理人员。因此，我们对 CHAT 的使用侧重于女性对女性的父权制。