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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Aboard the USS Thomas 1
American Dilemmas 21
The American Method 23
The American Curriculum 51
Schooling for All? 81
American Critiques 113
The Protective Garb of the "Job" 117
Going Global, or Going It Alone? 152
Ambivalent Imperialists 181
Epilogue: American Teachers in a Global Age 211
Notes 225
Index 291
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Mark Canfield
reviewed Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century on June 26, 2019
Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century
This book could easily be summed up "The Catholics and protestants fought, and everyone was racist as fuck." It basically describes Americans who go abroad to teach school. It talks about how they all hit the kids, even if they would never hit their own kids, because they were racist as fuck. Then it talks about how they viewed imperialism, even though they were the biggest imperialists, and racist as fuck. I think the author may have bitten off more than he could chew with such a broad topic. I mean history 101 is to pick a small specific topic. This was like all the teachers for an entire century, and it was just too much. I have no doubt the author knows what he's talking about, but in large part, I don't because it was too much information shoved into too little space. It makes me glad I didn't wind up in the peace corps when I graduated from college with how little preparation for teaching these people got, and how they tried to pass that off as a good thing. Basically, once again I find myself uncertain what I thought of the book. It didn't stand out much, and I'm not sure I retained much. I considered putting it down at one point, but then found myself in a new chapter that stopped being repetitive like the earlier chapters were. It was an alright book. I wouldn't recommend it though unless you're going abroad to teach and need to earn what not to do.
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