At the Edge of Danger

Elementary Teachers in Queens, New York, September 11, 2001

Bibliographic Data

ID9729944
AuthorsBeverly Milner Bisland (Queens College, CUNY, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume38
Issue4
Pages375-397
Publication date2006-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducation and Urban Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-1245 • E-ISSN: 1552-3535
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0013124506287913
OpenAlexW1964735821
LanguageEN
References cited13

Teachers were among the public servants at work in New York City on September 11, 2001. This study focuses on the feelings and actions of a representative group of elementary teachers in Queens, New York. As they became aware of the unfolding tragedy of the World Trade Center attacks, they demonstrated the essential qualities of public service, which include selflessness and placing others’ needs above their own. On that day, teachers, and other public servants, such as police and firefighters, became for ordinary citizens the voice and face of the democratic state in a time of crisis

Democracy · Face (sociological concept · Feeling · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Public service · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Tragedy (event · Work (physics · World trade center · Disaster Management and Resilience · Engineering · Law · Psychology · Public Administration · Social Psychology

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