1st Edition
Becoming Teachers Texts and Testimonies, 1907-1950
264 Pages
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Routledge
288 Pages
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Routledge
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There is an extraordinary gap in the published history of schooling in the twentieth century. Nowhere is the voice of the teacher, telling his or her own story, extensively to be heard. This book, drawing not only upon the official documentary record, but also upon the previously untapped recollections of more than 100 former classroom teachers, aims to fill this gap. In Becoming Teachers , the... Read more
Part 1 Problems and Approaches. Part 2 Policy Developed - The Student-Teacher Scheme and its Origins; Policy Debated - Conflicting Ideals for Teacher Education and Training; Policy Concluded - Demise and Legacy of Student Teaching; A Stolen Profession? Social Class and Teacher Supply; A Narrow Life? Teachers and Professional Identity; Practice - Experience of Training from Classroom to College. Part 3 Person; Mr Brian Sawkin; Mrs Delia Skelley and Mrs Lesley Thornbird; Mr Gerald Phillips; Miss Daisy Shipley and Mr Arthur Shipley; Miss Barbara Mill.
Biography
Peter Cunningham, Philip Gardner
'... a thorough and lively account of a unique group of student-teachers, based on interviews with some of them and analysis of recent documentation ... The individual accounts are sad, funny, usually vivid, occasionally banal, but at other times moving and even heroic.' - Ted Wragg, Times Educational Supplement
'...an exceptionally scholarly work...the words of interviewees put the teaching profession into a social historical context that is irreplaceable, breathing life experience into the subject.' - Dr Neil Rafeek, History of Education Research No 75, 2005
