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Innocents Abroad : American Teachers in the American Century.

Zimmerman, Jonathan.

Innocents Abroad : American Teachers in the American Century. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (313 pages)

Intro -- 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.

Drawing on extensive archives of teachers' letters and accounts, Zimmerman's narrative explores the teachers' shifting attitudes about their country and themselves, in a world that was more unexpected than they could have imagined.

9780674045453


Electronic books.

LB2283

370.116/3

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