Summers Off?
A History of U.S. Teachers' Other Three Months
Series: New Directions in the History of Education;
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Product details:
- Publisher Rutgers University Press
- Date of Publication 14 October 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781978831742
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages282 pages
- Size 235x156 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 12 B-W images 700
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Long description:
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.
MoreTable of Contents:
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
