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And Sadly Teach - Teacher Education and Professionalization in American Culture (Paperback, New edition)
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And Sadly Teach - Teacher Education and Professionalization in American Culture (Paperback, New edition)
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To lend weight to his charge that the public school teacher has
been betrayed and gravity to his indictment of the educational
establishment for that betrayal, Jurgen Herbst goes back to the
beginnings of teacher education in America in the 1830s and traces
its evolution up to the 1920s, by which time the essential damage
had been done. Initially, attempts were made to upgrade public
school teaching to a genuine profession, but that ideal was
gradually abandoned. In its stead, with the advent of newly
emerging graduate schools of education in the early decades of the
twentieth century, came the so-called professionalization of public
education. At the expense of the training of elementary school
teachers (mostly women), teacher educators shifted their attention
to the turning out of educational "specialists" (mostly
men)-administrators, faculty members at normal schools and teachers
colleges, adult education teachers, and educational researchers.
Ultimately a history of the neglect of the American public school
teacher, And Sadly Teach ends with a plea and a message that ring
loud and clear. The plea: that the current reform proposals for
American teacher education-the Carnegie and the Holmes reports-be
heeded. The message: that the key to successful school reform lies
in educating teacher's true professionals and in acknowledging them
as such in their classrooms.
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