Gender, Race and the National Education Association: Professionalism and its Limitations / Edition 1

by Wayne J. Urban

Overview

Urban presents the NEA in its historical context, turning a fair and clear eye on this powerful and controversial organization, and using this context to both criticize and commend. The culmination of a three decade long study, this unique volume presents an unusually thorough and much needed holistic view of the NEA.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815338161
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/03/2000
Series:	Studies in the History of Education
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Wayne J. Urban is Regents' Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Professor of History at Georgia Scace University. He is a past president of the History of Education Society and the American Educational Studies Association, as well as former vice president of Division F (History and Historiography) of the American Educational Research Association

Table of Contents

Preface — Chapter 1 Professionalism in Process: The Reform of the National Education Association, 1917-30 — Professionalism Foreshadowed — The Challenge of Teacher Unionism — A Remodeled Structure and a Major Fault Line — The Expansion of the NEA Central Office — The NEA Research Division and Its Audiences — Profession or "Professions" — Chapter 2 Professionalism and Educational Equity: The National Education Association in the 1930s — The Great Depression — Fiscal Equity and New Leadership — Rivalry with the AFT — Equity for Women and Minority Teachers Women and Equity on the NEA Staff: Charl Williams — The 1920s and the 1930s — Chapter 3 War and Professionalism: The National Education Association, 1940-49 — Another Emergency, Another Opportunity, and Another Commission — The Continuing Pursuit of Teacher Welfare Association Finance in a Time of Crisis — Building Local Associations — Women Teachers and Black Teachers — Women on the NEA Staff: Mobility and Its Limits — Chapter 4 An Exaggerated Sense of Accomplishment: The National Education Association in the 1950s — The NEA and the Federal Government — Teacher Welfare: Old and (a Few) New Approaches — Problems with Local and State Associations — Trouble at the Top — The NEA and the Woman Teacher in the 1950s — The Specter of Unionization — NEA Response to Criticism — Chapter 5 The Making of a Teachers' Union: The National Education Association, 1960-73 — Turmoil in the NEA in the I 960s — Constitutional Reform and Its Consequences The NEA and Political Action — Changes in the Relations of Loc,ll and State Associations — Militancy and the NEA Staff — Gender, Militancy, and the NEA — Chapter 6 Desegregating the National Education Association, 1954-78 — Desegregation of the NEA: Beginnings — Desegregation at the National Level — Early State Mergers — NEA Criteria for Mergers — The NEA and Desegregation in the 1970s — Organizational Consequences of Mergers — Chapter 7 Back to Professionalism: The National Education Association in the Past Twenty-Five Years — The 1970s and the 1980s: An Overview — Unionization and the NEA Research Division — Collective Bargaining — Political Action and the AFT — The NEA, the AFT, and Educational Reform — Merger with the AFT — The New Unionism and the Old — Epilogue — Bibliography — Name Index — Subject Index.