Teachers and Mentors: Profiles of Distinguished Twentieth-Century Professors of Education

by Bullough, Jr.,Robert V.

• ISBN13: 9780815317463
• ISBN10: 0815317468
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-03-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The unique relationship between mentors and students informs the art of teaching and enhances the intellectual vitality of higher education and quality of teacher and student life. This collection of original essays presents autobiographical vignettes of important professors of our time. These essays reflect the appreciation of the authors-now successful academics-for their teachers/mentors, whose drive and creativity had such on influence on the careers of their students. No other collection presents such an autobiographical and biographical portrayal of college of education faculty. The essays examine what it means to be a professor in today's academia, with its erosion of the professoriate and the emergence of a questionable entrepreneurial pragmatism. The writers and their subjects explain their vision of the academic life sustained by a community and perpetuated through the lives of their teachers and their students, a tradition not only in teaching but also in mentoring.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Introduction	p. 3
Three Generations: Teaching Expectations	p. 15
Charles Hubbard Judd: As I Came To Know Him	p. 19
Lessons Learned from Ralph W. Tyler	p. 29
Benjamin Bloom, Values and the Professoriate	p. 45
Standing for the Good: Professing and Social Responsibility	p. 55
Hilda Taba: The Congruity of Professing and Doing	p. 59
Boyd H. Bode: The Professor and Social Responsibility	p. 71
H. Gordon Hullfish: Teaching From the Fire Inside	p. 81
Apprentice Thorndike	p. 95
Modeling the Passion To Understand	p. 101
From the Classrooms of Stanford to the Alleys of Amsterdam: Elliot Eisner as Pedagogue	p. 105
Doing Philosophy: Maxine Greene and the Pedagogy of Possibility	p. 117
In Class with Philip W. Jackson	p. 127
Laura Zirbes: A Teacher of Teachers	p. 139
Extending an Invitation To Share a Journey	p. 147
Harold Alberty, Teacher and Guide	p. 151
Florence B. Stratemeyer: Teacher Educator for a Free People	p. 163
Alice Miel: Exemplar of Democracy Made Real	p. 173
The Longevity of a Good Mentor: J. Harlan Shores	p. 185
Mutuality, Dignity, and Generosity of Spirit	p. 195
Hollis Caswell and the Practice of Education	p. 199
Memories of Harold Rugg	p. 207
William Heard Kilpatrick: Respecter of Individuals and Ideas	p. 217
William Van Til: The Consistent Progressive	p. 225
Civility, a Project Pertaining to the Public World	p. 233
George S. Counts as a Teacher: A Reminiscence	p. 237
The Dignity and Honor of Virgil Clift	p. 245
Educating Civility: The Political Pedagogy of James B. Macdonald	p. 251
Epilogue: Professorial Dreams and Mentoring: A Personal View	p. 257
Bibliography	p. 269
Contributors	p. 286
Index	p. 288
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