The Teacher in American Society; A Critical Anthology
by Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-02-02
Publisher(s): SAGE Publications, Inc
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Summary
Using a reflective and criticaláapproach is, The Teacher in American Society: A Critical Anthology examines the nature of the teaching profession in the United States and the purpose behind the work of K-12 teachers. It does so through reading from a wide range of historical, sociological, and literary sources.áThe anthologyáreferences films and other sources in popular culture, such as cartoons, as a means of understanding not only the work and experience of teachers, but the perception of them in American society.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| On Being a Teacher | |
| Letter to a Young Teacher | |
| Accident, Awareness, and Actualization | |
| Respect, Liking, Trust, and Fairness | |
| Beginning to Teach | |
| A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South | |
| Selection From 36 Children | |
| Selection From Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year | |
| Teaching as the Practice of Freedom | |
| Selection From Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling | |
| Engaged Pedagogy | |
| Teaching Others | |
| The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children | |
| White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming To See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies | |
| Teaching Themes of Care | |
| Teaching as Work | |
| Prologue from Horace's Compromise | |
| Selection From My Posse Don't Do Homework | |
| "What Teachers Make or Objection Overruled, or If things don't work out, you can always go to law school" | |
| Teaching as Social Activism | |
| Selection From Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools | |
| "Should the Teacher Always Be Neutral?" | |
| Selection From Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | |
| Myths and Stereotypes About Teaching | |
| Selection From To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher | |
| Selections From School Is Hell: Lesson 6: The 9 Types of Grade School Teachers and Lesson 13: The 9 Types of High School Teachers | |
| Teaching and Sexuality | |
| The Teacher from Winesburg, Ohio | |
| Selection From Socrates, Plato, and Guys Like Me: Confessions of a Gay Schoolteacher | |
| Index | |
| About the Editor | |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
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