Innocents Abroad : : American Teachers in the American Century / / Jonathan Zimmerman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Zimmerman, Jonathan,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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