The Work of Teachers in America (eBook, ePUB)

A Social History Through Stories
Redaktion: Cohen, Rosetta Marantz; Scheer, Samuel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135459413
• Artikelnr.: 39703515

Autorenporträt

Rosetta Marantz Cohen, Samuel Scheer

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. Introduction. Part I: "...This Wretched State of Meanness and Servility": The Teacher in the Early Republic.J. Trumbull
"The Rare Adventures of Tom Brainless" From The Progress of Dulness. P. Freneau
The Private Tutor. W. Irving
"Ichabod Crane" From The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. R. Tyler
From The Algerine Captive. E.H. Willard
"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. W. Burton
From The District School As It Was. D.A. Payne
"The School-Master in the Dark South" From Recollections of Seventy Years. Part I Questions and Activities. Part II: "As to the Moral Condition of the People...": The Teacher and the Common School. E.P. Peabody
"Bronson Alcott's Method" From Record of a School: Exemplifying the General Principles of Spiritual Culture. W. Whitman
"Death in the School-Room: (A FACT)." D.P. Thompson
From Locke Amsden or the Schoolmaster: A Tale. E. Eggleston
"A Struggle for the Mastery" From The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana. C.M. Bishop
M.M. Rogers
"Letters From Pioneer Women Teachers." C. Forten
From "Life on the Sea Islands." C.W. Chesnutt
From "The March of Progress." Part II Questions and Activities. Part III: "The Heart Is the Teacher": The Teacher in the Progressive Era. A. Sullivan
From "The Letters of Anne Sullivan
1887." J. Addams
"The Arts at Hull-House" From Twenty Years at Hull-House. W.E.B. Du Bois
"Of the Coming of John" From The Souls of Black Folk. M. Kelly
From "Morris and the Honourable Tim." A. Patri
A Schoolmaster of the Great City. L. Covello
From The Heart Is the Teacher. A. Yezierska
"Children of Loneliness." J. Stuart
"Split Cherry Tree." Part III Questions and Activities. Part IV: "Tell Him the House Is Falling in": The Teacher
1945-1994. H. Calisher
"A Wreath for Miss Totten." R. Yates
"Doctor Jack-o'-Lantern." J. Kozol
From Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools. R. Dokey
"Teacher." E. Rofes
From Socrates
Plato
and Guys Like Me: Confessions of a Gay Schoolteacher. R.M. Cohen
"Lily Chin" From A Lifetime of Teaching: Portraits of Five Veteran High School Teachers. Part IV Questions and Activities.