Bethany Rogers
Biographic Data
| ID | 147868 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bethany Rogers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bethany |
| FAMILY NAME | Rogers |
| SIGNATURE | ROGERS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of Staten Island |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5333-7609 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Integrations
Meaning and methods in cultural geography
Better” People, Better Teaching
“What is our image going to be—conventional educators or innovators, milque-toasts or activists?” In posing this question, federal staff members responsible for developing the National Teacher Corps (NTC), a Great Society teacher reform initiative, articulated both their assumptions about and aspirations for teaching in the 1960s. According to the reformers’ thinking, existing teachers lacked the qualities of innovation, dedication, and social an…
Promises and limitations of youth activism in the 1960s
The National Teacher Corps (NTC) was created in 1965 to improve the education of “disadvantaged” students by upgrading the quality of their teachers. Specifically, the initiative sought to deploy bright, young liberal arts graduates as teaching “interns” in public schools attended by low‐income students of color. This essay explores the attempts of some participants to carry out a mission of social reform through this government‐sponsored program…
Teaching and Social Reform in the 1960s
This article draws on oral history narratives to examine the beliefs and expectations that brought a group of young people to the field of teaching in the 1960s through the National Teacher Corps (NTC). The oral histories address the identities, politics, aims, and backgrounds of a dozen NTC participants. By situating the voices of these young people within a larger social and historical context, the article uses oral history testimony to reconsi…
The Power of Practitioner Expertise
In a policy climate driven by tests and external mandates, theories of school reform that place teachers, their knowledge, and their relationships at the heart of school improvement have garnered attention as promising alternatives. Yet little exists in print about how such theories actually work or what these approaches look like in practice. This article attempts to open up that black box by offering one example of these reform theories in acti…
Conflicting Approaches to Curriculum
As the history of education testifies, reforming America's schools is and has been a staggeringly complex endeavor. One reason is that there are numerous different aspects of schooling-curriculum, professional development, assessment, and so forth-all of which are interrelated and all of which demand attention. Another challenge lies in the fact that many of the practices of schooling that reformers seek to change, as well as reformers' own presc…
Meaning and methods in cultural geography
Better” People, Better Teaching
“What is our image going to be—conventional educators or innovators, milque-toasts or activists?” In posing this question, federal staff members responsible for developing the National Teacher Corps (NTC), a Great Society teacher reform initiative, articulated both their assumptions about and aspirations for teaching in the 1960s. According to the reformers’ thinking, existing teachers lacked the qualities of innovation, dedication, and social an…
Conflicting Approaches to Curriculum
As the history of education testifies, reforming America's schools is and has been a staggeringly complex endeavor. One reason is that there are numerous different aspects of schooling-curriculum, professional development, assessment, and so forth-all of which are interrelated and all of which demand attention. Another challenge lies in the fact that many of the practices of schooling that reformers seek to change, as well as reformers' own presc…
The Power of Practitioner Expertise
In a policy climate driven by tests and external mandates, theories of school reform that place teachers, their knowledge, and their relationships at the heart of school improvement have garnered attention as promising alternatives. Yet little exists in print about how such theories actually work or what these approaches look like in practice. This article attempts to open up that black box by offering one example of these reform theories in acti…
Promises and limitations of youth activism in the 1960s
The National Teacher Corps (NTC) was created in 1965 to improve the education of “disadvantaged” students by upgrading the quality of their teachers. Specifically, the initiative sought to deploy bright, young liberal arts graduates as teaching “interns” in public schools attended by low‐income students of color. This essay explores the attempts of some participants to carry out a mission of social reform through this government‐sponsored program…
Teaching and Social Reform in the 1960s
This article draws on oral history narratives to examine the beliefs and expectations that brought a group of young people to the field of teaching in the 1960s through the National Teacher Corps (NTC). The oral histories address the identities, politics, aims, and backgrounds of a dozen NTC participants. By situating the voices of these young people within a larger social and historical context, the article uses oral history testimony to reconsi…
Better” People, Better Teaching
“What is our image going to be—conventional educators or innovators, milque-toasts or activists?” In posing this question, federal staff members responsible for developing the National Teacher Corps (NTC), a Great Society teacher reform initiative, articulated both their assumptions about and aspirations for teaching in the 1960s. According to the reformers’ thinking, existing teachers lacked the qualities of innovation, dedication, and social an…
Meaning and methods in cultural geography
Integrations
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · American Political and Social Dynamics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works)