The Teacher in American Society; A Critical Anthology

by Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr.

• ISBN13: 9781412965934
• ISBN10: 1412965934
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-02
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

Summary

Using a reflective and criticaláapproach is, The Teacher in American Society: A Critical Anthology examines the nature of the teaching profession in the United States and the purpose behind the work of K-12 teachers. It does so through reading from a wide range of historical, sociological, and literary sources.áThe anthologyáreferences films and other sources in popular culture, such as cartoons, as a means of understanding not only the work and experience of teachers, but the perception of them in American society.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

On Being a Teacher

Letter to a Young Teacher

Accident, Awareness, and Actualization

Respect, Liking, Trust, and Fairness

Beginning to Teach

A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South

Selection From 36 Children

Selection From Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year

Teaching as the Practice of Freedom

Selection From Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Engaged Pedagogy

Teaching Others

The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children

White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming To See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies

Teaching Themes of Care

Teaching as Work

Prologue from Horace's Compromise

Selection From My Posse Don't Do Homework

"What Teachers Make or Objection Overruled, or If things don't work out, you can always go to law school"

Teaching as Social Activism

Selection From Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools

"Should the Teacher Always Be Neutral?"

Selection From Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Myths and Stereotypes About Teaching

Selection From To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher

Selections From School Is Hell: Lesson 6: The 9 Types of Grade School Teachers and Lesson 13: The 9 Types of High School Teachers

Teaching and Sexuality

The Teacher from Winesburg, Ohio

Selection From Socrates, Plato, and Guys Like Me: Confessions of a Gay Schoolteacher

Index

About the Editor

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