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Show 19 United States would the 1960's.l certainly In the incomplete if be it stopped before early stages of the professional teacher association movement, great become better teachers. emphasis helping teachers was placed on This, according to the rhetoric, that the children of American would receive a they had been receiving. questions of There are several to the movement. happened What are the identifiable begin? movement? movement ginal goals? changes that they only changes in i consideration of have occurred in the in purpose of the changes means to accomplish the ori- Or, could it be that the notable changes in the pro fessional education movement have goals and tactical changes? to be interest How and when did the movement Did these changes represent or were so better education than to movement watchers which should be dealt with in what has was represented both modifications of What direction does the movement seem taking today? A movement usually consists of groups; it does have officers because it is not of the word. When one speaks of an a organization part of a individuals who movement, but seldom does usually in the usual sense movement, he usually has in mind the various groups which make up the movement. ful and influential not are a There may exist power leaders of groups which movement have are spokesman. Rather, there will usually be several articulate people who speak for or against lFor one a cause. When one of these leaders speaks, it is often history which gives the NEA perspective of the devel opment of the professional education association movement see Edgar B. Wesley, NEA: The First Hundred Years (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1957). |
