American teachers : histories of a profession at work / [print]
Donald R. Warren, editor.
- New York : Macmillan, (c)1989.
- xiii, 472 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
"A Publication of the American Educational Research Association."
IndianaTRODUCTION -- Teachers, reformers, and historians SECTION ONE: Those who taught and why -- Who became teachers? : the social characteristics of teachers in American history Incentives and rewards to teaching John L. Rury -- Susan B. Carter SECTION TWO: Teacher workplaces -- Child gardening: the teaching of young children in American schools The teacher in the country school Agents of democracy: urban elementary-school teachers and the conditions of teaching Career ladders and the early public high school teacher : a study of inequality and opportunity Teacher activism Barbara Beatty -- Wayne E. Fuller -- James W. Fraser -- David F. Labaree -- Wayne J. Urban SECTION THREE: Teacher education and certification -- Teacher preparation in the nineteenth century: institutions and purposes Teachers and teacher training in the twentieth century "Let us go and buy a schoolmaster": historical perspectives on the hiring of teachers in the United States, 1750-1980 Jurgen Herbst -- William R. Johnson -- Michael W. Sedlak SECTION FOUR: Issues and questions -- Man/woman/teacher: gender, family, and career in American educational history The history of Blacks in teaching: growth and decline within the profession The persistence of reform in American schools Practice and policy: notes on the history of instruction The future of the past: what do we need to know about the history of teaching? / David Tyack. Geraldine Joncich Clifford -- Linda M. Perkins -- Larry Cuban -- David K. Cohen --
With original contributions by leading experts, American Teachers is a critical synthesis of the most important current knowledge --
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