Blaming teachers : professionalization policies and the failure of reform in American history /
D'Amico Pawlewicz, Diana,
Blaming teachers : professionalization policies and the failure of reform in American history / Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz. - New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource. - New directions in the history of education .
Includes bibliographies and index.
"Historically, Americans of all stripes have concurred that teachers were essential to the success of the public schools and nation. However, they have also concurred that public school teachers were to blame for the failures of the schools and identified professionalization as a panacea. In Blaming Teachers, Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz reveals that historical professionalization reforms subverted public school teachers' professional legitimacy. Superficially, professionalism connotes authority, expertise, and status. Professionalization for teachers never unfolded this way; rather, it was a policy process fueled by blame where others identified teachers' shortcomings. Policymakers, school leaders, and others understood professionalization measures for teachers as efficient ways to bolster the growing bureaucratic order of the public schools through regulation and standardization. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century with the rise of municipal public school systems and reaching into the 1980s, Blaming Teachers traces the history of professionalization policies and the discourses of blame that sustained them"--
9781978808447 9781978808461
Teachers--Social conditions--United States--20th century.
Public schools--History--United States--20th century.
Educational change--History--United States--20th century.
Electronic Books.
LB1775 / .B536 2020
Blaming teachers : professionalization policies and the failure of reform in American history / Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz. - New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource. - New directions in the history of education .
Includes bibliographies and index.
"Historically, Americans of all stripes have concurred that teachers were essential to the success of the public schools and nation. However, they have also concurred that public school teachers were to blame for the failures of the schools and identified professionalization as a panacea. In Blaming Teachers, Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz reveals that historical professionalization reforms subverted public school teachers' professional legitimacy. Superficially, professionalism connotes authority, expertise, and status. Professionalization for teachers never unfolded this way; rather, it was a policy process fueled by blame where others identified teachers' shortcomings. Policymakers, school leaders, and others understood professionalization measures for teachers as efficient ways to bolster the growing bureaucratic order of the public schools through regulation and standardization. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century with the rise of municipal public school systems and reaching into the 1980s, Blaming Teachers traces the history of professionalization policies and the discourses of blame that sustained them"--
9781978808447 9781978808461
Teachers--Social conditions--United States--20th century.
Public schools--History--United States--20th century.
Educational change--History--United States--20th century.
Electronic Books.
LB1775 / .B536 2020