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Incarner un modèle progressiste : la professionnalisation de l'enseignement à Chicago (1890-1940)

Incarner un modèle progressiste : la professionnalisation de l'enseignement à Chicago (1890-1940)


Éducation et savoirs en société



The Making of the Professional Teacher in Progressive-Era Chicago

In the 1890s-1930s, a variety of educators, who looked to the schools to improve American society, worked to change teacher training and teaching methods, and to reorganize school systems across the United States.

Using Chicago as a case study, this book examines a wide range of actors, institutions and sources to provide a new historical analysis of these Progressive-Era reforms to professionalize teaching and, to a lesser extent, the principalship. Looking into teachers' and principals' discourses and practices, and their preprofessional, professional, and social lives, it reveals teachers' and principals’ important role in creating and circulating new professional models and paints a more expansive and detailed picture of progressive endeavors to professionalize education.

It supplements current research in American history of education, in gender studies, or on the Progressive Era, and echoes modern preoccupations with teacher training, educators’ social image, or individual civic duties.