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Zimmerman Jonathan <1961-> |
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Innocents abroad [[electronic resource] ] : American teachers in the American century / / Jonathan Zimmerman |
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Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2006 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Educational exchanges - United States - History - 20th century |
Teachers - United States - History - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: 2006. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-289) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Aboard the USS Thomas -- I: American Dilemmas -- 1. The American Method -- 2. The American Curriculum -- 3. Schooling for All? -- II: American Critiques -- 4. The Protective Garb of the "Job" -- 5. Going Global, or Going It Alone? -- 6. Ambivalent Imperialists -- Epilogue: American Teachers in a Global Age -- Notes -- Index |
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Until the early twentieth century, teachers went abroad with assumptions of their own superiority. But by the mid-twentieth century, they became far more self-questioning about their social assumptions, their educational theories, and the complexity of their role in a foreign society. Drawing on extensive archives of teachers' letters and accounts, Zimmerman's narrative explores the teachers' shifting attitudes about their country and themselves, in a world that was more unexpected than they could have imagined. |
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