MEMORIES OF A GEORGIA TEACHER by Martha Mizell Puckett, Hoyle B. Puckett (Editor) ( 9780820322599 )

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Title:

MEMORIES OF A GEORGIA TEACHER
FIFTY YEARS IN THE CLASSROOM

By:

Martha Mizell Puckett, Hoyle B. Puckett (Editor)

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0820322598

ISBN 13:

9780820322599

Publisher:

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS

Pub. date:

28 June, 2002

Series:

Southern Voices from the Past: Women's Letters, Diaries & Writings S.

Pages:

336

Translated from:

English

Description:

This biography chronicles the personal and professional life of a principled, resourceful and deeply religious woman. Puckett offers a valuable perspective on schooling in the 20th century rural South, as well as capturing the essence of daily life in the communities.

Synopsis:

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.

Illustrations:

14 b&w photographs

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Imprint:

University of Georgia Press

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