Blaming teachers: professionalization policies and the failure of reform in American history

"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 Bl...

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1. Verfasser: D'Amico Pawlewicz, Diana (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Brunswick, NJ Rutgers University Press [2020]
Schriftenreihe:New directions in the history of education
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:248 Seiten Illustrationen. - Illustrationen
ISBN:9781978808430
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