Innocents abroad [[electronic resource] ] : American teachers in the American century / / Jonathan Zimmerman

• Autore: Zimmerman Jonathan <1961->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Disciplina: 370.11630973
• Soggetto topico: Educational exchanges - United States - History - 20th century; Teachers - United States - History - 20th century
• Classificazione: DN 2000
• Note generali: Originally published: 2006.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-289) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Innocents abroad
• ISBN: 0-674-26847-4; 0-674-04545-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778172603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II