TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pawlewicz,Diana D'Amico
TI  - Blaming Teachers: Professionalization Policies and the Failure of Reform in American History 
T2  - New Directions in the History of Education
SN  - 9781978808461
AV  - LB1775.2 D43 2020
U1  - 371.10973 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Educational change
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Public schools
KW  - Teachers
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - EDUCATION / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978808461?locatt=mode:legacy
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