Blue-Collar Power
| Autor: | David M. Rafky |
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| Rok vydání: | 1972 |
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Small city
Blue collar media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Social impact 050401 social sciences methods 050301 education Testimonial Education Urban Studies Power (social and political) Principal (commercial law) 0504 sociology Law Institution Sociology 0503 education Custodians media_common |
| Zdroj: | Urban Education. 6:349-372 |
| ISSN: | 1552-8340 0042-0859 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/004208597200600404 |
| Popis: | Set in the wall of the main corridor of a public school in a small city of Iowa is a bronze tablet bearing, in low relief, the heroic likeness of a man and the inscription "He gave thirty-two years of faithful service to the youth of this community. " From the dedicatory program we learn that the tablet was placed "by its hundreds of doners [sic] with the belief that all those who shall frequent these halls in the years to come will be inspired, as we who present it were inspired, by him. " This superior personage, so memorialized, was not a member of the board of education, he was not a superintendent; nor a principal; nor an exceptional teacher, but the school janitor or custodian.... Here is a testimonial to the fact that the man who fires the furnace and sweeps the floors may. loom in the memory of those who came under his humble ministrations as of more moment than the remaining personnel of the institution [Rogers, 1938: 1]. |
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