To explore 900 teacher educators' attitudes about education and public schools, telephone surveys were conducted in the summer of 1997. The findings are summarized in six sections: (1) teacher educators envision classrooms as places where teachers and students are lifelong active learners, education is collaborative, and process is more important than content; (2) they want to discard what they see as outdated teaching and classroom management techniques that the public considers good schooling; (3) their vision of public education is fundamentally different from that of public school teachers, students, and the public; they tend to downplay discipline, basic skills, and good behavior; (4) they are not sure they have adequately prepared preservice teachers to succeed in real classrooms, most feel detached from today's schools; (5) they support a core curriculum and higher academic standards but resist requiring basic skills testing; (6) they consider public education an almost sacred democratic institution that is under siege and unfairly blamed for problems not of its making. Teacher educators also believe that their own programs are unfairly blamed and unappreciated. A response to these findings: "Afterword: Inspired, But Poorly Armed" by Deborah Wadsworth is included. The report concludes with seven tables that present the questionnaire items and results. (SM)
This dissertation research explored the general topic of gender by taking an in-depth look at parenting---a particularly gendered activity---through the eyes of married fathers in two-parent families where the mother is the primary breadwinner and the father is the primary parent. It employed qualitative research methods to provide a richly detailed account of the day-to-day lives of stay-at-home fathers, including: the social, economic, and cultural factors that make it possible for men both to become stay-at-home fathers and to continue serving in the role; the social constraints and challenges they face and the strategies they use to overcome them; and the ways they interpret, respond to, and give meaning to the experience of stay-at-home fatherhood. The fathers with the most success at legitimizing their stay-at-home-father status are the ones who degendered their responsibilities by altogether de-linking them from gender, thus eliminating the feminizing or emasculating stigma associated with them. In effect, they occupationalized at-home parenting by conceiving of it as an essential job that must be done to achieve a successful family life and good outcomes for their children. By separating at-home parenting from traditional gender ideology, they constructed a new reality where tending to children in this way was perceived as parental as opposed to maternal behavior. The findings were based on 35 in-depth, open-ended telephone interviews with stay-at-home fathers from across the country.
Across the twentieth century, the families of people who died in war and disaster were left to make sense of their sudden loss and navigate newfound grief. This book focuses the families of people who died in the First World War and in mining disasters in the early twentieth-century. These bereaved families were often denied access to bodies and choice over burial rights, all while dealing with the increased bureaucracy of death.Families created domestic memorials, which took on additional meaning because of this lack of memorial agency elsewhere. Although the ways that these families were bereaved each took place in different circumstances, the ways that families grieved were recognizable to one another: they drew on common memorial practices, augmented to take on special meaning after sudden death.This memorial material provided a vehicle for families to navigate their loss, but also to communicate the memory of the dead both externally, through donation to museums, and linearly, through ancestral lines. Drawing on a nuanced reading of a wide range of sources - from ephemera to administrative museum paperwork - this book explores family reactions to mass death events in early twentieth-century Britain. The result is a comparative and domestic perspective on mourning at the turn of the century that makes important contributions to the growing field of death studies, and will be of interest to those working on the First World War, interwar Britain, the history of work, the social history of the family, and the history of memorialization. 6 b&w illustrations
This volume traces the unique trajectory of The Outsiders, from beloved book to beloved movie. Based on S.E. Hinton’s landmark novel, Coppola’s film adaptation tells the story of the Greasers, a gang of working-class boys yearning for security, love, and acceptance in a world ruled by their rival gang, the rich Socs. The Outsiders: Adolescent Tenderness and Staying Gold explores the cultural impact of Hinton’s book, the process by which Coppola made the film, the film’s melodramatic components, the marketing of the movie to a young female audience, and the nostalgia industry that has emerged around it in recent decades, thereby illuminating how The Outsiders stands apart from other teen films of the 1980s. In its depiction of the emotional rather than sexual lives of young men on film and its recognition of the desires of teen girls as an audience, The Outsiders distinguishes itself from the standard teen fare of the era. With seriousness and sincerity, Coppola’s film captures the essence of the oft-repeated, timeless message of the story: ‘Stay gold.’ This volume engages with a wide range of disciplinary approaches—film studies, gender studies, and literary and cultural studies—in order to distinguish The Outsiders as the significant contribution to youth culture that it was in the early 1980s and continues to be in the twenty-first century. The book fills a gap in existing scholarship on youth culture and is ideal for scholars, students, and teachers in youth cultures, young adult literature, film studies, cultural studies, and gender studies.
Streaming Music examines how the Internet has become integrated in contemporary music use, by focusing on streaming as a practice and a technology for music consumption. The backdrop to this enquiry is the digitization of society and culture, where the music industry has undergone profound disruptions, and where music streaming has altered listening modes and meanings of music in everyday life. The objective of Streaming Music is to shed light on what these transformations mean for listeners, by looking at their adaptation in specific cultural contexts, but also by considering how online music platforms and streaming services guide music listeners in specific ways. Drawing on case studies from Moscow and Stockholm, and providing analysis of Spotify, VK and YouTube as popular but distinct sites for music, Streaming Music discusses, through a qualitative, cross-cultural, study, questions around music and value, music sharing, modes of engaging with music, and the way that contemporary music listening is increasingly part of mobile, automated and computational processes. Offering a nuanced perspective on these issues, it adds to research about music and digital media, shedding new light on music cultures as they appear today. As such, this volume will appeal to scholars of media, sociology and music with interests in digital technologies.
Since becoming a teacher my interest was always to endorse dedication to students, and parents. Having parents visit the classroom is very important to grow and maturity of their children. Parent engagement emphases a positive academic growth for students. It also gives support that all students need to perform at the top level. Students from my observation, with parents involved, students were very well behaved and ready to listen. Involved parents should be familiar with the Principal, teachers and school staff. This is a way to assist parents and students to communicate with everyone connected to the school system. Teachers much make parents feel welcome into the classroom. Working as a team will allow all students to excel in their achievements. This is the first proposal to develop positive engagement for all connected to the children. Having a proposal or a contract signed by all is a good tool to consider in finalizing your bond together. Since I was a Counselor and Social Worker before teaching, this allows me to work with problems outside of the classroom. On many occasions I could make suggestions to different agencies that were available to assist parents or extended family members if the need was presented. Anything that will help your students with problems is important for the better classroom performance. Students and parents are the two most important aspects dealing with education that teachers can possibly possess. They are the foundation for teaching and learning. You must have both in order to give all students the best education possible. One of the most extraordinary experiences in my lifetime was to become and educator and work with students, parents with commitment and dedication for academic achievement. Students deserve to have parent engagement especially in the high schools in order to keep them from dropping out.
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