A philosophical or social movement advocating for the education of male and female students together.
From coeducational + -ism (a suffix forming nouns for ideologies, practices, or beliefs). Created in the late 1800s to name the social movement supporting mixed-gender education.
Coeducationalism was a full-fledged ideology—Victorian reformers wrote manifestos, founded organizations, and debated passionately about whether mixing genders in education was dangerous or progressive, similar to how we debate school policies today.
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