Courting the Woman Teacher: The National Education Association, 1917–1970

The National Education Association (NEA) has not been a topic of choice for many educational historians. Perhaps a major reason for this it that the NEA as a site for historical work seems fraught with pitfalls. Consider first the problem of the NEA as a setting for an institutional history. The maj...

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Published inHistory of education quarterly Vol. 41; no. 2; pp. 139 - 166
Main Author Urban, Wayne J.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Cambridge University Press 2001
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
History of Education Society
Subjects
20. Jahrhundert
Art teachers
Bildungsgeschichte
Educational administration
Educational history
Employment discrimination
Frau
Geschichte (Histor)
Gewerkschaft
Gleichberechtigung
Lehrer
Lehrerin
Lehrerverband
Men
Mitarbeiterin
Professionalisierung
Salary
Schule
Secondary school teachers
Tarifpolitik
Teacher organizations
Teachers
Vereinigte Staaten
Working women
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Summary:The National Education Association (NEA) has not been a topic of choice for many educational historians. Perhaps a major reason for this it that the NEA as a site for historical work seems fraught with pitfalls. Consider first the problem of the NEA as a setting for an institutional history. The major example of this kind of work yielded a decidedly unsatisfactory result. Edgar B. Wesley's centennial history of the NEA, published in 1957, is an almost completely uncritical description and an unabashed celebration of the organization.
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ArticleID:HOEQ139
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ISSN:0018-2680
1748-5959
DOI:10.1111/j.1748-5959.2001.tb00082.x