Summers Off?

A History of U.S. Teachers' Other Three Months

Christine A. Ogren (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

282 Seiten

2025
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-3174-2 (ISBN)

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Since the nine-month school year became common in the United States during the 1880s, schoolteachers have never really had summers off. Administrators instructed them to rest, as well as to study and travel, in the interest of creating a compliant workforce. Teachers, however, adapted administrators’ directives to pursue their own version of professionalization and to ensure their financial well-being. Summers Off explores teachers’ summer experiences between the 1880s and 1930s in institutes and association meetings; sessions at teachers colleges, Black colleges, and prestigious universities; work for wages or their family; tourism in the U.S. and Europe; and activities intended to be restful. This heretofore untold history reveals how teachers utilized the geographical and psychological distance from the classroom that summer provided, to enhance not only their teaching skills but also their professional and intellectual independence, their membership in the middle class, and, in the cases of women and Black teachers, their defiance of gender and race hierarchies.

Christine A. Ogren is a professor at the University of Iowa. She is the author of The American State Normal School: "An Instrument of Great Good" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), and the coeditor of Rethinking Campus Life: New Perspectives on the History of College Students in the United States (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

Introduction
1          Professional Development in Institutes and Association Meetings: “So Many Serious, Intensely Professional Teachers”
2          Studies at Normal School, College, and University Summer Sessions: “Invaders” in Harvard Yard
3          Work for Family, for Supplemental Income, and for an Exit Strategy: The Center of a “Crazy Calico Quilt”
4          Tourism: “The Teachers Are the Greatest Traveling Class”
5          Rest: Putting “New Blood into My Veins”
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.10.2025
Reihe/Serie	New Directions in the History of Education
Zusatzinfo	12 B-W images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Sekundarstufe I+II
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-9788-3174-9 / 1978831749
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-3174-2 / 9781978831742
Zustand	Neuware