Normalites : the first professionally prepared teachers in the United States

• Main Author: Kolodny, Kelly Ann (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2014]
• Series: Contemporary research in education.
• Subjects: Teachers colleges > United States > History.; Teachers > Training of > United States > History.; Education > Research.; Teaching staff.; Education.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806612628
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-62396-690-4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 210 pages)

Normalites: The First Professionally Prepared Teachers in the United States is a new original work which explores the experiences of three women, Lydia Stow, Mary Swift and Louisa Harris, who were pioneers in the movement in teacher education as members of the first class of the nation's first...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Establishment of the normal school movement and the first students
• Chapter 1. Becoming normalites
• Chapter 2. Formal and informal learning experiences
• Chapter 3. Excursions and visitors
• Chapter 4. Partings
• Chapter 5. First teaching positions
• Chapter 6. Challenges encountered in teaching and developing paths
• Chapter 7. Family, friendships, and social contexts
• Chapter 8. Abolitionism, the underground railroad, and the civil war
• Chapter 9. Louisa harris and the life of a single teacher
• Chapter 10. Lydia stow, first woman school board member in fall river and founder of the fall river women's union
• Chapter 11. Mary swift, advocate of education for the deaf and blind and founder of the boston young women's christian association
• Chapter 12. Networks, reunions, visits, and legacies archives, libraries, historical societies, and associations
• Bibliography.