The Work and Lives of Teachers

Rosetta Marantz Cohen is a professor in the Department of Education and Child Study at Smith College, Massachusetts, where she holds the Sylvia D'luglasch Bauman Chair in American Studies. She has served as Director of the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute at Smith College, and was Director of the Smith College Internship Program at the Smithsonian Museum. She received her BA in English, magna cum laude, from Yale University, Connecticut, her MFA in Poetry from Columbia University, New York, and her EdD in Curriculum and Instruction from Teachers College, Columbia. She is the author of four books on American school reform and the history of the teaching profession, as well as a prize-winning chapbook of poetry. She was the recipient of an AKP fellowship in Japan, where she researched secondary education. In addition, she has served on the board of the John Dewey Society, on Women's Education Worldwide (WEW), and was part of a team that worked to design the first liberal arts women's college in Malaysia.

Teaching on Earth: introduction; 1. Finland: autonomy and respect Annukka Suonio; 2. Taiwan: tradition and change Feng-juan Kuo; 3. Greece: a week of austerity Vasiliki Michailidou; 4. Azerbaijan: teaching in the shadow of war Gulnaz Haciyeva; 5. France: defending rigor Laurence Manfrini; 6. Chile: revolution and resignation Mauricio Ramirez; 7. America: diversity and a passion for leadership Bonnie Fineman; 8. The teacher in comparative perspective; 9. Teachers in their own words.