The Teacher in American Society: A Critical Anthology examines the nature of the teaching profession in the United States and the purpose behind the work of primary and secondary teachers. It does so through reading from a wide rangeof historical, sociological, and literary sources. The anthology references films and other sources in popular culture, such as cartoons, as a means of understanding not only the work and experience of teachers, but the perception ofthem in American society. INDICE: PART ONE: ON BEING A TEACHER / Joseph Featherstone Letter to a Young Teacher / Nel Noddings Accident, Awareness, and Actualization / Kathleen Cushman Respect, Liking, Trust and Fairness / PART TWO: BEGINNING TO TEACH / W. E. B. Du Bois A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South / Herbert Kohl Selection from 36 Children. / Esmé Raji Codell Selection from Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year / PART THREE: TEACHING AS THE PRACTICE OF FREEDOM / John Taylor Gatto Selection from Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling. / Bell Hooks Engaged Pedagogy / PART FOUR: TEACHING OTHERS / Lisa Delpit The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People'sChildren / Peggy McIntosh White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming To See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies / Nel Noddings Teaching Themes of Care / PART FIVE: TEACHING AS WORK / Theodore R. Sizer Prologue from Horace's Compromise. / Louanne Johnson Selection from Dangerous Minds (My Posse Don't Do Homework). / Taylor Mali What Teachers Make / PART SIX: TEACHING AS SOCIAL ACTIVISM / Jonathan Kozol Selection from Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools / George S. Counts Should the Teacher Always Be Neutral?" /Mildred D. Taylor Selection from Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry / PART SEVEN: MYTHS AND STEREOTYPES ABOUT TEACHING / William Ayers Selection from To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher / Matt Groening Lesson 6: The 9 Types of Grade School Teachers; Lesson 13: The 9 Types of High School Teachers / PART EIGHT: TEACHINGAND SEXUALITY / Sherwood Anderson The Teacher from Winesburg, Ohio. / Eric Rofes Selection from Socrates, Plato, and Guys Like Me: Confessions of a Gay Schoolteacher
- ISBN: 978-1-4129-6593-4
- Editorial: Sage Publications
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 296
- Fecha Publicación: 30/04/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés