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Winner of the 2021 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Historically, Americans of all stripes have concurred that teachers were essential to the success of the public schools and nation. However, they have also concurred that public school teachers were to blame for the failures of the schools and identified professionalization as a panacea. In Blaming Teachers, Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz reveals that historical professionalization reforms subverted public school teachers' professional legitimacy. Superficially, professionalism connotes authority, expertise, and status. Professionalization for teachers never unfolded this way; rather, it was a policy process fueled by blame where others identified teachers' shortcomings. Policymakers, school leaders, and others understood professionalization measures for teachers as efficient ways to bolster the growing bureaucratic order of the public schools through regulation and standardization. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century with the rise of municipal public school systems and reaching into the 1980s, Blaming Teachers traces the history of professionalization policies and the discourses of blame that sustained them.

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Author:   Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.004kg
ISBN:  

9781978808423

ISBN 10:   1978808429
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   14 August 2020
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Episode #84 The Blame Game: 100 Years of Teacher Bashing Have You Heard-- Have You Heard podcast There is a lot of life to this book, which is full of many terrific narratives that are engaging, often astounding, and some almost comical. It's easy to 'blame teachers' and this excellently researched book offers a way to work through that problem. --Kate Rousmaniere author of The Principal's Office: A Social History of the American School Principal This accessible and appealing history has an important message for various stakeholders in the professional status and image of teachers. --Christine A. Ogren coeditor of Rethinking Campus Life: New Perspectives on the History of College Students in the US Why has teaching remained such stubbornly difficult, fraught work despite a long record of policy and reform? D'Amico Pawlewicz's brilliant new historical analysis lays bare the powerful reasons. --Jackie Blount author of Fit to Teach: Same-Sex Desire, Gender, and School Work in the Twentieth Century Blaming Teachers is a major contribution to the labor history of teachers as well as an important challenge to how we think about the legacy of teacher unions. It is sure to be a part of the conversation on either of these questions in the history of education. Further, since understanding the history of one's occupation is one distinction of a 'profession, ' this book should be read in any teacher-preparation pro- gram that dares to treat its students as future professionals. -- History of Education Quarterly How teachers advocating for their students could backfire by Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz https: //www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/12/11/how-teachers-advocating-their-students-could-backfire/#comments-wrapper-- Washington Post The school reopening debate reveals that we don't listen to teachers about schools, by Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz https: //www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/10/school-reopening-debate-reveals-that-we-dont-listen-teachers-about-schools/-- Washington Post

"“This accessible and appealing history has an important message for various stakeholders in the professional status and image of teachers.” -- Christine A. Ogren * coeditor of Rethinking Campus Life: New Perspectives on the History of College Students in the US * ""How teachers advocating for their students could backfire"" by Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz  https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/12/11/how-teachers-advocating-their-students-could-backfire/#comments-wrapper * Washington Post * ""There is a lot of life to this book, which is full of many terrific narratives that are engaging, often astounding, and some almost comical. It’s easy to 'blame teachers' and this excellently researched book offers a way to work through that problem."" -- Kate Rousmaniere * author of The Principal's Office: A Social History of the American School Principal * ""Diversifying the teaching profession requires confronting history"" by Diana D’Amico Pawlewicz  https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Diversifying-the-teaching-profession-requires-14990452.php * San Francisco Chronicle * ""Why has teaching remained such stubbornly difficult, fraught work despite a long record of policy and reform? D’Amico Pawlewicz’s brilliant new historical analysis lays bare the powerful reasons."" -- Jackie Blount * author of Fit to Teach: Same-Sex Desire, Gender, and School Work in the Twentieth Century * Episode #84 ""The Blame Game: 100 Years of Teacher Bashing"" Have You Heard * Have You Heard podcast * ""The school reopening debate reveals that we don’t listen to teachers about schools,"" by Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/10/school-reopening-debate-reveals-that-we-dont-listen-teachers-about-schools/ * Washington Post * ""Blaming Teachers is a major contribution to the labor history of teachers as well as an important challenge to how we think about the legacy of teacher unions. It is sure to be a part of the conversation on either of these questions in the history of education. Further, since understanding the history of one’s occupation is one distinction of a 'profession,' this book should be read in any teacher-preparation pro- gram that dares to treat its students as future professionals."" * History of Education Quarterly *"

"“This accessible and appealing history has an important message for various stakeholders in the professional status and image of teachers.” -- Christine A. Ogren * coeditor of Rethinking Campus Life: New Perspectives on the History of College Students in the US * ""How teachers advocating for their students could backfire"" by Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz  https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/12/11/how-teachers-advocating-their-students-could-backfire/#comments-wrapper * Washington Post * ""There is a lot of life to this book, which is full of many terrific narratives that are engaging, often astounding, and some almost comical. It’s easy to 'blame teachers' and this excellently researched book offers a way to work through that problem."" -- Kate Rousmaniere * author of The Principal's Office: A Social History of the American School Principal * ""Why has teaching remained such stubbornly difficult, fraught work despite a long record of policy and reform? D’Amico Pawlewicz’s brilliant new historical analysis lays bare the powerful reasons."" -- Jackie Blount * author of Fit to Teach: Same-Sex Desire, Gender, and School Work in the Twentieth Century * Episode #84 ""The Blame Game: 100 Years of Teacher Bashing"" Have You Heard * Have You Heard podcast * ""The school reopening debate reveals that we don’t listen to teachers about schools,"" by Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/10/school-reopening-debate-reveals-that-we-dont-listen-teachers-about-schools/ * Washington Post * ""Blaming Teachers is a major contribution to the labor history of teachers as well as an important challenge to how we think about the legacy of teacher unions. It is sure to be a part of the conversation on either of these questions in the history of education. Further, since understanding the history of one’s occupation is one distinction of a 'profession,' this book should be read in any teacher-preparation pro- gram that dares to treat its students as future professionals."" * History of Education Quarterly *"

Episode #84 The Blame Game: 100 Years of Teacher Bashing Have You Heard-- Have You Heard podcast There is a lot of life to this book, which is full of many terrific narratives that are engaging, often astounding, and some almost comical. It's easy to 'blame teachers' and this excellently researched book offers a way to work through that problem. --Kate Rousmaniere author of The Principal's Office: A Social History of the American School Principal This accessible and appealing history has an important message for various stakeholders in the professional status and image of teachers. --Christine A. Ogren coeditor of Rethinking Campus Life: New Perspectives on the History of College Students in the US Why has teaching remained such stubbornly difficult, fraught work despite a long record of policy and reform? D'Amico Pawlewicz's brilliant new historical analysis lays bare the powerful reasons. --Jackie Blount author of Fit to Teach: Same-Sex Desire, Gender, and School Work in the Twentieth Century The school reopening debate reveals that we don't listen to teachers about schools, by Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz https: //www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/10/school-reopening-debate-reveals-that-we-dont-listen-teachers-about-schools/-- Washington Post How teachers advocating for their students could backfire by Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz https: //www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/12/11/how-teachers-advocating-their-students-could-backfire/#comments-wrapper-- Washington Post

There is a lot of life to this book, which is full of many terrific narratives that are engaging, often astounding, and some almost comical. It's easy to 'blame teachers' and this excellently researched book offers a way to work through that problem. --Kate Rousmaniere author of The Principals' Office: A Social History of the American School Principal Why has teaching remained such stubbornly difficult, fraught work despite a long record of policy and reform? D'Amico Pawlewicz's brilliant new historical analysis lays bare the powerful reasons. --Jackie Blount author of Fit to Teach: Same-Sex Desire, Gender, and School Work in the Twentieth Century This accessible and appealing history has an important message for various stakeholders in the professional status and image of teachers. --Christine A. Ogren coeditor of Rethinking Campus Life: New Perspectives on the History of College Students in the US How teachers advocating for their students could backfire by Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz https: //www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/12/11/how-teachers-advocating-their-students-could-backfire/#comments-wrapper--Washington Post

This accessible and appealing history has an important message for various stakeholders in the professional status and image of teachers. --Christine A. Ogren coeditor of Rethinking Campus Life: New Perspectives on the History of College Students in the US There is a lot of life to this book, which is full of many terrific narratives that are engaging, often astounding, and some almost comical. It's easy to 'blame teachers' and this excellently researched book offers a way to work through that problem. --Kate Rousmaniere author of The Principals' Office: A Social History of the American School Principal Why has teaching remained such stubbornly difficult, fraught work despite a long record of policy and reform? D'Amico Pawlewicz's brilliant new historical analysis lays bare the powerful reasons. --Jackie Blount author of Fit to Teach: Same-Sex Desire, Gender, and School Work in the Twentieth Century How teachers advocating for their students could backfire by Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz https: //www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/12/11/how-teachers-advocating-their-students-could-backfire/#comments-wrapper--Washington Post

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DIANA D'AMICO PAWLEWICZ is a historian of education reform and social policy and an assistant professor in Educational Foundations and Research at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks supported by the Elnora Hopper Danley Professorship.

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