Blaming Teachers : Professionalization Policies and the Failure of Reform in American History /
Pawlewicz, Diana D'Amico
Blaming Teachers : Professionalization Policies and the Failure of Reform in American History / Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz. - 1 online resource (252 p.) : 8 b&w images, 1 table - New Directions in the History of Education .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 "A Chaotic State" -- 2 To "Raise Teachers' Profession to a Dignity Worthy of Its Mission" -- 3 Teacher Education and the "National Welfare" -- 4 "The Enlistment of Better People" -- 5 "A Brave New Breed" -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author
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Historically, Americans of all stripes have concurred that teachers were essential to the success of the public schools and nation. However, they have also concurred that public school teachers were to blame for the failures of the schools and identified professionalization as a panacea. In Blaming Teachers, Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz reveals that historical professionalization reforms subverted public school teachers' professional legitimacy. Superficially, professionalism connotes authority, expertise, and status. Professionalization for teachers never unfolded this way; rather, it was a policy process fueled by blame where others identified teachers' shortcomings. Policymakers, school leaders, and others understood professionalization measures for teachers as efficient ways to bolster the growing bureaucratic order of the public schools through regulation and standardization. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century with the rise of municipal public school systems and reaching into the 1980s, Blaming Teachers traces the history of professionalization policies and the discourses of blame that sustained them.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781978808461
10.36019/9781978808461 doi
2019045977
Educational change--History--United States--20th century.
Public schools--History--United States--20th century.
Teachers--Social conditions--United States--20th century.
EDUCATION / General.
LB1775.2 / D43 2020
371.10973
Blaming Teachers : Professionalization Policies and the Failure of Reform in American History / Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz. - 1 online resource (252 p.) : 8 b&w images, 1 table - New Directions in the History of Education .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 "A Chaotic State" -- 2 To "Raise Teachers' Profession to a Dignity Worthy of Its Mission" -- 3 Teacher Education and the "National Welfare" -- 4 "The Enlistment of Better People" -- 5 "A Brave New Breed" -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Historically, Americans of all stripes have concurred that teachers were essential to the success of the public schools and nation. However, they have also concurred that public school teachers were to blame for the failures of the schools and identified professionalization as a panacea. In Blaming Teachers, Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz reveals that historical professionalization reforms subverted public school teachers' professional legitimacy. Superficially, professionalism connotes authority, expertise, and status. Professionalization for teachers never unfolded this way; rather, it was a policy process fueled by blame where others identified teachers' shortcomings. Policymakers, school leaders, and others understood professionalization measures for teachers as efficient ways to bolster the growing bureaucratic order of the public schools through regulation and standardization. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century with the rise of municipal public school systems and reaching into the 1980s, Blaming Teachers traces the history of professionalization policies and the discourses of blame that sustained them.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781978808461
10.36019/9781978808461 doi
2019045977
Educational change--History--United States--20th century.
Public schools--History--United States--20th century.
Teachers--Social conditions--United States--20th century.
EDUCATION / General.
LB1775.2 / D43 2020
371.10973