{"product_id":"summers-off-a-history-of-u-s-teachers-other-three-months-paperback-softback-9781978831742","title":"Summers Off?; A History of U.S. Teachers' Other Three Months (Paperback \/ softback) 9781978831742","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSummers Off?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA History of U.S. Teachers' Other Three Months\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChristine A. Ogren (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781978831742\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 14 October 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e282 pages, 12 B-W images\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 1.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Ogren's exploration of what teachers did in the summer expands our understanding of teachers' lives and education in important, fascinating ways. Disparagement of time 'off' was part of deprofessionalization and a rationale for low pay and status, while teachers expanded their knowledge, perspective, and skills at their own expense. Charmed by Ogren's well-written accounts of teachers from diverse backgrounds, I remembered summer school classes, \u003ci\u003eWar and Peace, \u003c\/i\u003ean enrichment program for urban kids, working on the census, swimming in Walden Pond, and more when I was teaching kindergarten in the Boston Public Schools. Summer's on, you'll learn a lot!\" - Barbara Beatty (professor emerita of education, Wellesley College) \"In this deeply researched, fascinating account, Ogren not only reveals rich new dimensions of how teachers a century ago \u003ci\u003echose\u003c\/i\u003e to live during their precious summer months, but why their stories remain relevant for us today.\" - Jackie M. Blount (author of Fit to Teach: Same-Sex Desire, Gender, and School Work in the Twentieth Century)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSince the nine-month school year became common in the United States during the 1880s, schoolteachers have never really had summers off. Administrators instructed them to rest, as well as to study and travel, in the interest of creating a compliant workforce. Teachers, however, adapted administrators’ directives to pursue their own version of professionalization and to ensure their financial well-being. \u003ci\u003eSummers Off\u003c\/i\u003e explores teachers’ summer experiences between the 1880s and 1930s in institutes and association meetings; sessions at teachers colleges, Black colleges, and prestigious universities; work for wages or their family; tourism in the U.S. and Europe; and activities intended to be restful. This heretofore untold history reveals how teachers utilized the geographical and psychological distance from the classroom that summer provided, to enhance not only their teaching skills but also their professional and intellectual independence, their membership in the middle class, and, in the cases of women and Black teachers, their defiance of gender and race hierarchies.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Professional Development in Institutes and Association Meetings: “\u003cbr\u003eSo Many Serious, Intensely Professional Teachers”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Studies at Normal School, College, and University Summer Sessions: “\u003cbr\u003eInvaders”\u003cbr\u003e in Harvard Yard\u003cbr\u003e 3 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Work for Family, for Supplemental Income, and for an Exit Strategy: The Center of a “\u003cbr\u003eCrazy Calico Quilt”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Tourism: “\u003cbr\u003eThe Teachers Are the Greatest Traveling Class”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Rest: Putting “\u003cbr\u003eNew Blood into My Veins”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52640473088280,"sku":"9781978831742","price":28.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/summers-off-a-history-of-u-s-teachers-other-three-months-paperback-softback-9781978831742","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}