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"Becoming" Teachers of Inner-City Students: Identification Creativity and Curriculum Wisdom of Committed White Male Teachers
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Jupp, James C.; Slattery, G. Patrick, Jr. – Urban Education, 2012
Broadly speaking, this reflection approaches the on-going concern of capacitating an overwhelmingly White teaching profession for effectively teaching inner-city students attending "de facto" segregated schools. Using professional identifications, this reflection presents narrativized understanding of respondents' "becoming"…
Descriptors: Creativity, Urban Schools, Whites, Professional Identity
Urban Teachers Who Quit: Why They Leave and What They Do.
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Haberman, Martin; Rickards, William H. – Urban Education, 1990
Analyzes why teachers leave urban schools and their subsequent employment, using the questionnaire responses of 50 of the 124 teachers who left the Milwaukee (Wisconsin) public schools in 1988. Finds that 90 percent of the "leavers" find teaching jobs in other schools. Suggests how the problems cited by the leavers could be ameliorated.…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Questionnaires, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Persistence
Dual Standards among Teachers: This School Is Good Enough for Other Kids but Not My Child.
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Bingham, Richard D.; And Others – Urban Education, 1990
Examines the reasons why one-third of the teachers in a large urban school district rated the quality of their school highly but did not want their own children to attend the school where they taught. Finds the following explanations: (1) overall school quality; (2) disciplinary consistency; and (3) racial attitudes. Discusses policy implications.…
Descriptors: Discipline Problems, Educational Assessment, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education
Rural and Urban Teachers: Differences in Attitudes and Self Concept.
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Trentham, Landa L.; Schaer, Barbara B. – Research in Rural Education, 1985
A stratified random sample of 339 rural teachers and 245 urban teachers took the Tennessee Self Concept Scale and the Purdue Teacher Opinionnaire. Significant differences between the groups occurred on seven subtest scores related to curriculum issues, rapport among teachers, salary, teaching load, moral-ethical self, self-criticism, and social…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Geographic Location, Job Satisfaction