Innocents Abroad
Author | : Jonathan ZIMMERMAN |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780674045453 |
ISBN-13 | : 0674045459 |
Rating | : 4/5 (459 Downloads) |
Download or read book Innocents Abroad written by Jonathan ZIMMERMAN and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the early twentieth century, teachers went abroad with assumptions of their own superiority. But by the mid-twentieth century, they became far more self-questioning about their social assumptions, their educational theories, and the complexity of their role in a foreign society. Drawing on extensive archives of teachers' letters and accounts, Zimmerman's narrative explores the teachers' shifting attitudes about their country and themselves, in a world that was more unexpected than they could have imagined.