Innocents abroad : American teachers in the American century / Jonathan Zimmerman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zimmerman, Jonathan, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational exchanges--United States--History--20th century.

Educational exchanges.

Teachers--United States--History--20th century.

Teachers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Until the early twentieth century, teachers went abroad with assumptions of their own superiority. But by the mid-twentieth century, they became far more self-questioning about their social assumptions, their educational theories, and the complexity of their role in a foreign society. Drawing on extensive archives of teachers' letters and accounts, Zimmerman's narrative explores the teachers' shifting attitudes about their country and themselves, in a world that was more unexpected than they could have imagined.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Aboard the USS Thomas

I: American Dilemmas

1. The American Method

2. The American Curriculum

3. Schooling for All?

II: American Critiques

4. The Protective Garb of the "Job"

5. Going Global, or Going It Alone?

6. Ambivalent Imperialists

Epilogue: American Teachers in a Global Age

Notes

Index

Notes:

Originally published: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-289) and index.

ISBN:

9780674268470

0674268474

9780674045453

0674045459

OCLC:

1013946598