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 ext...

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