And Sadly Teach
Teacher Education and Professionalization in American Culture
Jurgen Herbst
"Herbst makes a reasoned plea for reform of teacher education grounded in policies that would ensure the full professional empowerment of all teachers in the interests of revitalizing American public education in the emerging postindustrial age." —Choice
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.
Jurgen Herbst is emeritus professor of history and education policy studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. One of America's foremost historians of education, he has published a number of influential journal articles, and is the author of The German Historical School in American Scholarship: A Study in the Transfer of Culture, From Crisis to Crisis: American College Government, 1636–1819, and Requiem for a German Past: A Boyhood among the Nazis, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
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September 1989
LC: 89-004775 LB
246 pp. 6 x 9
33 tables
ISBN-10: 0-299-12184-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-299-12184-6
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