The Teacher's Voice: A Social History of Teaching in 20th Century America

ISBN-13: 9781850009610 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 232 str.

R. Altenbaugh; J. Richard J.; Richard J. Altenbaugh

Opis

This collection of essays tries to salvage and analyze the narratives of public employees who worked in one of the nation's largest and most vital social institutions. Their 20th century teaching careers are reconstructed, emphasizing the parts played by crucial social, economic, and political events and issues, the school organization, and people-students, parents, and others - in shaping the subjects' evolving definitions, or perceptions, of their role as a teacher in a particular community. It is multi-dimensional in scope, stressing qualitative research approaches, oral histories, autobiographies, and diaries, as sources, undergirded with in-depth analyses. This collection also focuses on a comparative examination of teachers' experiences and perceptions in different regions (Northeast, Midwest, West, and South) and in various settings (rural, small town, and urban). The contributions fall under three broad headings - women's work; teachers and their communities; and professionals or workers?

Spis treści

Having a purpose in life - western women teachers in the 20th century, Ann Vaughn-Roberson; the intersection of home and work - rural vermont schoolteacher, 1915-1950, Margaret K.Nelson; becoming the new women - the equal rights campaigns of New York city schoolteachers, 1900-1920, Patricia Carter; African-American teachers in Buffalo - the first 100 years, Phyllis Chase; female schoolteachers as community builders, Margaret K.Nelson; religious discrimination, political revenge and teacher tenure, Joseph W.Newman; one who left and one who stayed - teacher recollections and reflections of school desegregation in New Orleans, Alan Wieder; the social status of women teachers in the early 20th century, Patricia Carter; the complex vision of female teachers and the failure of unionization in the 1930s - an oral history, Richard A.Quantz; teachers and the workplace, Richard J.Altenbaugh; interpretive method in historical research - ethnohistory reconsidered, Richard A.Quantz; the history of teaching - a social history of schooling, Richard J.Altenbaugh.

O autorze

Richard Altenbaugh