Images of Schoolteachers in America

Explores images of schoolteachers from beginning of 20th century to the present. Raises questions about what it means to be a teacher; what influences/sustains people's beliefs about teachers; & the social-political context that shapes images of teachers

Joseph, Pamela Bolotin | Burnaford, Gail E.

Contents: Preface. Part I: Prologue.P.B. Joseph, One Hundred Years of Schoolteaching: An Invented Interview. Part II: Images in Oral Histories and Narratives.N.S. Green, M.P. Manke, Good Women and Old Stereotypes: Retired Teachers Talk About Teaching. D. Hobson, Shifting Images Across the Generations: Conversations With Beginning, Current, and Retired Teachers. S. Efron, P.B. Joseph, Reflections in a Mirror: Metaphors of Teachers and Teaching. J. Fischer, A. Kiefer, Constructing and Discovering Images of Your Teaching. E.R. Mikel, S. Hiserman, Beyond the Classroom: Progressive Activist Teachers and Images of Experience, Meaning, Purpose, and Identity. Part III: Images in Textbooks, Literature, Television, and Film.P.B. Joseph, "The Ideal Teacher": Images in Early 20th-Century Teacher Education Textbooks. M.P. Manke, The Sentimental Image of the Rural Teacher. G.E. Burnaford, And the Oscar Goes to...Teachers as Supporting Actors in Fiction for Young Adults. K. Kantor, N.L. Kantor, J. Kantor, M. Eaton, B. Kantor, "I Will Not Expose the Ignorance of the Faculty": The Simpsons as School Satire. W. Ayers, A Teacher Ain't Nothin' but a Hero: Teachers and Teaching in Film. R. Lowe, Teachers as Saviors, Teachers Who Care. Part IV: Epilogue.G.E. Burnaford, D. Hobson, Responding to Reform: Images for Teaching in the New Millennium.