Constructing the “home-side” of a scientific legacy: Mary Everest Boole, pedagogy, and domesticity
The Victorian writer Mary Everest Boole (1832–1916) developed an idiosyncratic pedagogical treatment of arithmetic, algebra, and logic. Her pedagogy favored active, child-directed learning, and is now generally admired as ahead of its time, though it must be deciphered through fairly eccentric deliv...
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| description | The Victorian writer Mary Everest Boole (1832–1916) developed an idiosyncratic pedagogical treatment of arithmetic, algebra, and logic. Her pedagogy favored active, child-directed learning, and is now generally admired as ahead of its time, though it must be deciphered through fairly eccentric delivery. A recurring theme in Mrs. Boole’s prolific writing is the misunderstood legacy of her late husband, the renowned mathematician and logician George Boole (1815–1864). As existing literature has shown, she worked to promote a morally and religiously charged understanding of his work. More fundamentally, she presented an all-encompassing pedagogical perspective on Mr. Boole’s life and work. Across her voluminous publications, Mrs. Boole filtered everything—mathematics, logic, religion, morality, and homelife—through the lens of pedagogy. She used this expansive conception of teaching to span the gulf between professional and domestic work, thereby claiming a privileged domestic perspective on her husband’s intellectual output and enlisting his legacy as a resource for her own writing. The Booles’ entangled careers show how particular ways of practicing domesticity could shape and be shaped by mathematical identities and ideas. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:eeac8e91-1546-401d-ac7e-921ed92d48542024-03-07T14:45:36ZConstructing the “home-side” of a scientific legacy: Mary Everest Boole, pedagogy, and domesticityJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:eeac8e91-1546-401d-ac7e-921ed92d4854EnglishSymplectic ElementsElsevier2023Dunning, DEThe Victorian writer Mary Everest Boole (1832–1916) developed an idiosyncratic pedagogical treatment of arithmetic, algebra, and logic. Her pedagogy favored active, child-directed learning, and is now generally admired as ahead of its time, though it must be deciphered through fairly eccentric delivery. A recurring theme in Mrs. Boole’s prolific writing is the misunderstood legacy of her late husband, the renowned mathematician and logician George Boole (1815–1864). As existing literature has shown, she worked to promote a morally and religiously charged understanding of his work. More fundamentally, she presented an all-encompassing pedagogical perspective on Mr. Boole’s life and work. Across her voluminous publications, Mrs. Boole filtered everything—mathematics, logic, religion, morality, and homelife—through the lens of pedagogy. She used this expansive conception of teaching to span the gulf between professional and domestic work, thereby claiming a privileged domestic perspective on her husband’s intellectual output and enlisting his legacy as a resource for her own writing. The Booles’ entangled careers show how particular ways of practicing domesticity could shape and be shaped by mathematical identities and ideas. |
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