Teaching Marianne and Uncle Sam
Subtitle: public education, state centralization, and teacher unionism in France and the United States
By: Nicholas Toloudis
Series: Politics, history, and social change
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781439909065; 9781439909089
Subjects: Teachers' unions; Education and state; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Teachers, politics, and the state; title: Centralization, mobilization, and selective engagement; title: Centralizing public education and teachers' politics in 19th century France; title: Centralization and its discontents among New York City teachers; title: Selective engagement and teachers' politics in France, 1887-1950; title: Selective engagement and teachers' politics in New York City, 1920-1960; title: Marianne and Uncle Sam revisited.