Using Microbiography to Understand the Occupational Careers of American Teachers, 1900-1950

Autor/in	Gough, Robert J.
Titel	Using Microbiography to Understand the Occupational Careers of American Teachers, 1900-1950
Quelle	In: American Educational History Journal, 39 (2012) 1, S.15-32 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1535-0584
ISBN	978-1-6239-6008-7
Schlagwörter	Biographies; Time; Teaching (Occupation); Females; Career Development; Administrative Organization; Organizational Change; School Districts; Educational History; Teaching Conditions; Elementary School Teachers; Secondary School Teachers; Rural to Urban Migration; Wisconsin + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Biography; Biografie; Biographie; Zeit; Teaching; Lehrberuf; Weibliches Geschlecht; Berufsentwicklung; Organisationswandel; School district; Schulbezirk; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Lehrbedingungen; Unterrichtsbedingungen; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Landflucht
Abstract	This article will briefly narrate illustrative life stories of some of the 450 men and women who taught in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, between 1919 and 1949 and identify and explain how they employed these options to build occupational pathways. Taken together, these "microbiographies" show patterns in the life trajectories of ordinary people. They contain stories that are temporally and spatially dynamic--as such, they can be reconstructed only because of the recent ability of historians to electronically search newspapers, the Census, and genealogical records, and to follow ordinary individuals as they moved into different types of communities around the United States (Putnam 2006). Chippewa Falls is a good base site for this sort of analysis: during the interwar decades it was such smaller cities that sought to balance the small town with the metropolis, modernity with traditionalism. They were places where urban, rural, immigrant, and native-born cultures interacted. These microbiographies of Chippewa Falls teachers in the first half of the twentieth century can help explain the connections, and resultant strategies for occupational advancement, that developed at the intersection of these two occupational environments. (Contains 5 notes.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10