Innocents Abroad : : American Teachers in the American Century / / Jonathan Zimmerman.
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 ext...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2008 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Other title: | 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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Summary: | 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780674045453 9783110756067 9783110442205 |
DOI: | 10.4159/9780674045453 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Jonathan Zimmerman. |