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City Teachers: Teaching and School Reform in Historical Perspectivereviewed by Harvey Kantor - 2001 Title: City Teachers: Teaching and School Reform in Historical Perspective Author(s): Kate Rousmaniere Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York ISBN: , Pages: 178, Year: 1997 Search for book at Amazon.com Over the last decade, there has been a
revival of interest in the history of teachers and teaching. This
interest has produced several notable histories of the feminization
of teaching, classroom pedagogy, and teachers' political
organizations. But, as Kate Rousmaniere observes in the
introduction to her new book, absent from nearly all of these
historical studies have been accounts from inside the schools that
describe teachers' working conditions and daily work processes. One
result is that while we now know a good deal about issues such as
gender, unions, and professionalism in teaching, we still know
little about the history of teachers' work or about the meaning
that it had for teachers.
In City Teachers, Rousmaniere tries to fill this gap by
examining teachers' experiences of what it was like to work in New
York City during the 1920s when school reformers sought to re-make
the city's schools in accordance with the principles of social
efficiency. She begins with an account of the politics of teaching
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- Harvey Kantor
University of Utah E-mail Author Harvey Kantor is a Professor in the Education, Culture and Society department of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Utah. His research interests include: history of education; social policy; and school and work. Publications include Learning to Earn: School, Work, and Vocational Reform in California, 1880-1930 (University of Wisconsin Press, 1988) and Work, Youth, and Schooling: Historical Perspectives on Vocationalism in American Education (edited with David Tyack) (Stanford University Press, 1982).
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