Innocents Abroad - American Teachers in the American Century

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Zimmerman is Professor of Education and History at the Steinhardt School of Education and in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at New York University. He spent two years as a teacher with the Peace Corps in Nepal and is the author of Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools (Harvard). Klappentext Protestant missionaries in Latin America! colonial "civilizers" in the Pacific! Peace Corps volunteers in Africa. Since the 1890s! thousands of American teachers - mostly young! white! middle-class! and inexperienced - have fanned out across the globe. This book tells the story of what they intended to teach and what lessons they learned. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis * Acknowledgments * Introduction: Aboard the USS Thomas I. American Dilemmas * The American Method * he American Curriculum * Schooling for All? II. American Critiques * Teacher Professionalism and Its Critics * Church-State Relations * The Problem of Empire * Epilogue: American Teachers in a Global Age * Notes * Index

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Zimmerman, Zimmerman Jonathan
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2008
• EAN: 9780674032064
• ISBN: 978-0-674-03206-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Education, EDUCATION / History, HISTORY / Latin America / General, Christianity, Teaching skills and techniques, United States of America, USA, Religious mission and Religious Conversion