Английская Википедия:Dámasa Cabezón

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Dámasa Cabezón (1792Шаблон:Spnd17 March 1861) was an Argentine-Chilean educator and women's education pioneer in 19th-century South America. A daughter of the Spanish educator José León Cabezón, she founded educational institutes for girls in Santiago de Chile (1838) and La Paz, Bolivia (1845). She has been credited with establishing the first generation of secular schools for girls in Chile.Шаблон:Sfn

Early life

Dámasa Cabezón was the daughter of the Spanish educator Шаблон:Interlanguage link and his wife María Martínez Outes. Her father had emigrated from Spain to Salta in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata where he founded a school for the children of the colonial upper-class.Шаблон:Sfn In 1828, she accompanied her father to Santiago de Chile and began teaching Latin at a similar school he had founded in the city.[1]

Career

In 1832, together with her sister Manuela, Cabezón established a school for girls in Santiago, which she directed until 1845.Шаблон:Sfn In that year, she relocated to La Paz, Bolivia, where she was hired by the government of José Ballivián to establish an educational institute for womenШаблон:Sfn along the lines of her foundation in Chile.[1] This institute educated, among others, the Bolivian composer Modesta Sanginés Uriarte.Шаблон:Sfn Having returned from Bolivia in 1848, she directed a school in La Serena for most of the 1850s before retiring to Valparaíso, where she died in March 1861.[1] The historian Joyce Contreras Villalobos wrote that Cabezón's were the first attempts at establishing secular institutes for women's education in Chile.Шаблон:Sfn

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