Images of Schoolteachers in America

by Joseph, Pamela Bolotin; Burnaford, Gail E.

• ISBN13: 9781410600509
• ISBN10: 1410600505
• Edition: 2nd
• Copyright: 2001-01-12
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

Explores images of schoolteachers from beginning of 20th century to the present. Raises questions about what it means to be a teacher; what influences/sustains people's beliefs about teachers; & the social-political context that shapes images of teachers

Table of Contents

Preface

Prologue

One Hundred Years of Schoolteaching: An Invented Interview

Images in Oral Histories and Narratives

Good Women and Old Stereotypes: Retired Teachers Talk About Teaching

Shifting Images Across the Generations: Conversations With Beginning, Current, and Retired Teachers

Reflections in a Mirror: Metaphors of Teachers and Teaching

Constructing and Discovering Images of Your Teaching

Beyond the Classroom: Progressive Activist Teachers and Images of Experience, Meaning, Purpose, and Identity

Images in Textbooks, Literature, Television, and Film

"The Ideal Teacher": Images in Early 20th-Century Teacher Education Textbooks

The Sentimental Image of the Rural Teacher

And the Oscar Goes to...Teachers as Supporting Actors in Fiction for Young Adults

"I Will Not Expose the Ignorance of the Faculty": The Simpsons as School Satire

A Teacher Ain't Nothin' but a Hero: Teachers and Teaching in Film

Teachers as Saviors, Teachers Who Care

Epilogue

Responding to Reform: Images for Teaching in the New Millennium

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