History of coeducation and its dissemination in the western formal education

In the context of the current public debate about the superiority single-sex schooling versus coeducation, critics of the latter often argue that coeducation spread in western formal education not specifically because of research-proven benefits, but rather due to ideological sociological reasons. The following study presents a historical route along some of the milestones that led to coeducation in the Western system as we know it (with a final emphasis on the Peruvian process). It concludes that the expansion of coeducation was not due to scientifically-proven benefits but to sociological or economic pressures. The paper concludes that the debate mentioned above can legitimately take up its sustenance in that demonstrated lack of empirical evidence.

• Tipo de recurso: http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6693
• Fecha de publicación: 2015
• Institución: Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
• Repositorio: RiUPTC: Repositorio Institucional UPTC
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.uptc.edu.co:001/14746
• Acceso en línea: https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/historia_educacion_latinamerican/article/view/3814; https://repositorio.uptc.edu.co/handle/001/14746
• Palabra clave: Journal History of Latin American Education; history of education; single-sex schooling; coeducation.; Social Sciences; Revista Historia de la Educación Latinoamericana; historia de la educación; educación diferenciada; coeducación.; Ciencias Sociales
• License: Copyright (c) 2015 Journal History of Latin American Education