TY - GEN N2 - Until the early twentieth century, teachers went abroad with assumptions of their own superiority. But by the mid-twentieth century, they became far more self-questioning about their social assumptions, their educational theories, and the complexity of their role in a foreign society. Drawing on extensive archives of teachers' letters and accounts, Zimmerman's narrative explores the teachers' shifting attitudes about their country and themselves, in a world that was more unexpected than they could have imagined. DO - 10.4159/9780674045453 DO - doi AB - Until the early twentieth century, teachers went abroad with assumptions of their own superiority. But by the mid-twentieth century, they became far more self-questioning about their social assumptions, their educational theories, and the complexity of their role in a foreign society. Drawing on extensive archives of teachers' letters and accounts, Zimmerman's narrative explores the teachers' shifting attitudes about their country and themselves, in a world that was more unexpected than they could have imagined. T1 - Innocents Abroad :American Teachers in the American Century / AU - Zimmerman, Jonathan, JF - HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) JF - Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 CN - LB2283 LA - eng LA - In English. ID - 1478793 KW - Educational exchanges KW - Teachers KW - EDUCATION / History SN - 9780674045453 TI - Innocents Abroad :American Teachers in the American Century / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674045453 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674045453 ER -