Historical Sketch of Normal Instruction in Wisconsin 1846-1876 (Classic Reprint)
Historical Sketch of Normal Instruction in Wisconsin 1846-1876 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Albert Salisbury

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-11

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 9781331149644

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Excerpt from Historical Sketch of Normal Instruction in Wisconsin 1846-1876 In the preparation of this sketch, as will easily be seen, there has been no attempt at ornament; there has been, however, a persistent and laborious effort at accuracy in matters of fact. But in an account extending over so many years, and prepared under such circumstances as this, it must needs be that some omissions and even errors exist. The most that can be hoped is that they are not serious ones. It has been the aim to make a tolerably complete and convenient book of reference, and at the same time to preserve, as far as possible, the form of a connected narrative. With this in view, the matter has been arranged in chapters under such general heads that a person interested only in a particular point or direction need not be compelled to read the whole book in order to find the desired information. Although this plan has made considerable repetition necessary, it has been adhered to faithfully throughout, even where the repetition was very distasteful to the writer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

And Sadly Teach
And Sadly Teach

Author: Jurgen Herbst

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9780299121846

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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.