Images of schoolteachers in America / edited by Pamela Bolotin Joseph, Gail E. Burnaford.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Joseph, Pamela Bolotin.

Burnaford, Gail E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teachers--United States.

Teachers.

United States.

Teachers in literature.

Teachers in motion pictures.

Teaching.

Physical Description:

xi, 260 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Images of school teachers in America

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2001.

Summary:

Explores images of schoolteachers from beginning of 20th century to the present. Raises questions about what it means to be a teacher; what influences/sustains people's beliefs about teachers; & the social-political context that shapes images of teachers

Contents:

One hundred years of schoolteaching : an invented interview / Pamela Bolotin Joseph

Good women and old stereotypes : retired teachers talk about teaching / Nancy Stewart Green and Mary Phillips Manke

Shifting images across the generations : conversations with beginning, current, and retired teachers / David Hobson

Reflections in a mirror : metaphors of teachers and teaching / Sara Efron and Pamela Bolotin Joseph

Constructing and discovering images of your teaching / Joseph Fischer and Anne Kiefer

Beyond the classroom : progressive activist teachers and images of experience, meaning, purpose, and identity / Edward R. Mikel and Stan Hiserman

"Ideal teacher" : images in early 20th-century teacher education textbooks / Pamela Bolotin Joseph

Sentimental image of the rural teacher / Mary Phillips Manke

And the Oscar goes to... teachers as supporting actors in fiction for young adults / Gail E. Burnaford

"I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty" : The Simpsons as school satire / Ken Kantor ... [et al.].

Teacher ain't nothin' but a hero : teachers and teaching in film / William Ayers

Teachers as saviors, teachers who care / Robert Lowe

Responding to reform : images for teaching in the new millennium / Gail E. Burnaford and David Hobson.

Notes:

Rev. ed. of: Images of schoolteachers in twentieth-century America, c1994.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0805830871

OCLC:

44089315