Memories of a Georgia Teacher: Fifty Years in the ClassroomUniversity of Georgia Press, 2002 - 297 pàgines Memories of a Georgia Teacher chronicles the personal and professional life of a principled, resourceful, and deeply religious woman whose career began at a time when state support for primary education was all but nonexistent. Martha Mizell started teaching in 1913 in a one-room, one-teacher school near the Okefenokee Swamp in southeast Georgia. At the time she was barely fifteen, and her formal schooling amounted to seven years. While Puckett offers a valuable perspective on schooling in the twentieth-century rural South, she also captures the essence of daily life in the communities in which she taught. We read of how she sometimes boarded with parents of her pupils, of how teachers, students, and parents joined together in observance of holidays, of the rituals of school openings and closings, and of how schooling managed to continue through the busy growing seasons. Personal details of Puckett's life also emerge, from her relationship with her parents to life at home with her husband and their eight children. Martha Mizell Puckett's career paralleled the transformation of small, informal community school systems into consolidated, government supported, bureaucratic structures. Through Puckett's eyes our own are opened--to hard times, certainly, but also to a time of notable closeness and involvement between schools and their communities. |
Continguts
My Short Stay in the Long Ford Community | 16 |
Bamboo School and a War Begins | 48 |
Springtime at Union School | 112 |
Raybon School and a War Ends | 136 |
CHAPTER 16 Red Hill School | 164 |
CHAPTER 17 Preparing for the School I Never Taught | 167 |
CHAPTER 18 I Marry and My Life Is Changed | 193 |
CHAPTER 19 My Teaching Career 19211932 | 232 |
An Unhappy Ending | 261 |
CHAPTER 24 My Short Stays | 266 |
CHAPTER 25 Gardi School Once Again | 267 |
Back to Empire | 268 |
CHAPTER 27 National 4H Alumni Award | 273 |
All Things Hold Fast | 286 |
APPENDIX 1 This I Believe | 291 |
Schools at Which I Have Taught | 294 |
CHAPTER 20 Empire School Years | 237 |
CHAPTER 21 Lunch at Gardi | 245 |
Empire Community School in World War II | 251 |
Notes | 295 |