The Work of Teachers in America: A Social History Through Stories

by Cohen, Rosetta Marantz; Scheer, Samuel

• ISBN13: 9780805826906
• ISBN10: 0805826904
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-03-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

Traces the evolution of the teacher and the profession of teaching from the late 18th century to the present through a range of narrative forms (fiction, memoirs, letters, ethnographies).

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Introduction	1	(6)
Part I ``. . . This Wretched State of Meanness and Servility'': The Teacher in the Early Republic	7	(58)
``The Rare Adventures of Tom Brainless'' From The Progress of Dulness	13	(10)
John Trumbull
``The Private Tutor''	23	(6)
Philip Freneau
``Ichabod Crane'' From ``The Legend of Sleepy Hollow''	29	(6)
Washington Irving
From The Algerine Captive	35	(6)
Royall Tyler
``Memoirs of a Woman Teacher'' From Educational Biographies, Memoirs of Teachers, Educators, and Promoters and Benefactors of Education, Literature, and Science, Part I: Teachers and Educators	41	(6)
Emma Hart Willard
From The District School As It Was	47	(10)
Warren Burton
``The School-Master in the Dark South'' From Recollections of Seventy Years	57	(8)
Daniel Alexander Payne
Part I Questions and Activities	63	(2)
Part II ``As to the Moral Condition of the People . . .'': The Teacher and the Common School	65	(90)
``Bronson Alcott's Method'' From Record of a School: Exemplifying the General Principles of Spiritual Culture	71	(12)
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
``Death in the School-Room (A FACT)''	83	(6)
Walt Whitman
From Locke Amsden or The Schoolmaster: A Tale	89	(12)
Daniel Pierce Thompson
``A Struggle for the Mastery'' from The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana	101	(4)
Edward Eggleston
``Letters From Pioneer Women Teachers''	105	(20)
Cynthia M. Bishop
Martha M. Rogers
From ``Life on the Sea Islands''	125	(8)
Charlotte Forten
From ``The March of Progress''	133	(22)
Charles W. Chesnutt
Part II Questions and Activities	143	(12)
Part III ``The Heart is the Teacher'': The Teacher in the Progressive Era	155	(96)
From ``The Letters of Anne Sullivan, 1887''	161	(12)
Anne Sullivan
``The Arts At Hull-House'' From Twenty Years At Hull-House	173	(8)
Jane Addams
``Of the Coming of John'' From The Souls of Black Folk	181	(12)
W. E. B. Du Bois
From ``Morris and the Honourable Tim''	193	(12)
Myra Kelly
A Schoolmaster of the Great City	205	(10)
Angelo Patri
From The Heart is the Teacher	215	(8)
Leonard Covello
``Children of Loneliness''	223	(14)
Anzia Yezierska
``Split Cherry Tree''	237	(14)
Jesse Stuart
Part III Questions and Activities	249	(2)
Part IV ``Tell Him the House is Falling In'': The Teacher, 1945--1994	251	(80)
``A Wreath for Miss Totten''	257	(10)
Hortense Calisher
``Doctor Jack-o'-lantern''	267	(14)
Richard Yates
From Death At an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools	281	(12)
Jonathan Kozol
``Teacher''	293	(8)
Richard Dokey
From Socrates, Plato, and Guys Like Me: Confessions of a Gay Schoolteacher	301	(14)
Eric Rofes
``Lily Chin'' From A Lifetime of Teaching: Portraits of Five Veteran High School Teachers	315	(16)
Rosetta Marantz Cohen
Part IV Questions and Activities	329	(2)
References	331	(4)
Author Index	335	(2)
Subject Index	337