The Work of Teachers in America: A Social History Through Stories

, by Cohen, Rosetta Marantz; Scheer, Samuel

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ISBN: 9780805826906 | 0805826904
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/1/1997

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Traces the evolution of the teacher and the profession of teaching from the late 18th century to the present through a range of narrative forms (fiction, memoirs, letters, ethnographies).

Preface

Introduction

(6)

Part I ``. . . This Wretched State of Meanness and Servility'': The Teacher in the Early Republic

(58)

``The Rare Adventures of Tom Brainless'' From The Progress of Dulness

(10)

John Trumbull

``The Private Tutor''

(6)

Philip Freneau

``Ichabod Crane'' From ``The Legend of Sleepy Hollow''

(6)

Washington Irving

From The Algerine Captive

(6)

Royall Tyler

``Memoirs of a Woman Teacher'' From Educational Biographies, Memoirs of Teachers, Educators, and Promoters and Benefactors of Education, Literature, and Science, Part I: Teachers and Educators

(6)

Emma Hart Willard

From The District School As It Was

(10)

Warren Burton

``The School-Master in the Dark South'' From Recollections of Seventy Years

(8)

Daniel Alexander Payne

Part I Questions and Activities

(2)

Part II ``As to the Moral Condition of the People . . .'': The Teacher and the Common School

(90)

``Bronson Alcott's Method'' From Record of a School: Exemplifying the General Principles of Spiritual Culture

(12)

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody

``Death in the School-Room (A FACT)''

(6)

Walt Whitman

From Locke Amsden or The Schoolmaster: A Tale

(12)

Daniel Pierce Thompson

``A Struggle for the Mastery'' from The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana

101

(4)

Edward Eggleston

``Letters From Pioneer Women Teachers''

105

(20)

Cynthia M. Bishop

Martha M. Rogers

From ``Life on the Sea Islands''

125

(8)

Charlotte Forten

From ``The March of Progress''

133

(22)

Charles W. Chesnutt

Part II Questions and Activities

143

(12)

Part III ``The Heart is the Teacher'': The Teacher in the Progressive Era

155

(96)

From ``The Letters of Anne Sullivan, 1887''

161

(12)

Anne Sullivan

``The Arts At Hull-House'' From Twenty Years At Hull-House

173

(8)

Jane Addams

``Of the Coming of John'' From The Souls of Black Folk

181

(12)

W. E. B. Du Bois

From ``Morris and the Honourable Tim''

193

(12)

Myra Kelly

A Schoolmaster of the Great City

205

(10)

Angelo Patri

From The Heart is the Teacher

215

(8)

Leonard Covello

``Children of Loneliness''

223

(14)

Anzia Yezierska

``Split Cherry Tree''

237

(14)

Jesse Stuart

Part III Questions and Activities

249

(2)

Part IV ``Tell Him the House is Falling In'': The Teacher, 1945--1994

251

(80)

``A Wreath for Miss Totten''

257

(10)

Hortense Calisher

``Doctor Jack-o'-lantern''

267

(14)

Richard Yates

From Death At an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools

281

(12)

Jonathan Kozol

``Teacher''

293

(8)

Richard Dokey

From Socrates, Plato, and Guys Like Me: Confessions of a Gay Schoolteacher

301

(14)

Eric Rofes

``Lily Chin'' From A Lifetime of Teaching: Portraits of Five Veteran High School Teachers

315

(16)

Rosetta Marantz Cohen

Part IV Questions and Activities

329

(2)

References

331

(4)

Author Index

335

(2)

Subject Index

337

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