Legacy of the One-room Schoolhouse on the Teaching profession: Summary

Legacy of the One-room Schoolhouse on the Teaching profession: Summary
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Introduction
In the legacy of the one room schoolhouse, the author is bringing back or reflecting on the memories of the one room schoolhouse where one teacher was responsible for teaching the whole class. The same teacher was expected to maintain the structure of the building, ensuring the floor cleanness, and ensuring that the school eatery was in order. This according to the author made the teaching profession a manual labor and that the teaching profession was far from being a noble profession at that time. The author observes that it is important to understand the legacy of the one room school house since there are many aspects that were prevalent in such times and which are still existing today in the school system. Some of the aspects that are still exant include privatization of teaching, independence, and the aspect of isolation. According to the author, these factors had a negative impact on teaching.
During the one room schoolhouse era, a teacher was expected to ensure that everything in the school compound was in order. This made the collective action in the school to be automatic. The author goes on to explain that the one-room schoolhouses can be seen in many school corridors today. In addition, teachers still view learners within the classroom walls and consider the school as his or hers. These are some of the aspects, which make the one room schoolhouse to be still rife in many people’s minds.
Some of the negative factors associated with the earlier one schoolhouse system include: isolation, routine, psychological dilemmas, in-sufficient induction of newly recruited educators, lack of career phases, lack of being engaged in school decisions, conservatism, as well as lack of technical shared culture. These factors, which can still be depicted in many school cultures in today’s perspective, according to the author, only help in thwarting the minds and perceptions of school administrators and teachers. This, therefore, makes necessary for an initiation of novel school cultures that consider collective beliefs instead of such aspects as isolation and cultures that are more purposeful and which takes into consideration teachers, the school and students. The subsequent part is a discussion of how some of the aspects derived from the One-room Schoolhouse era are still rife in today’s perspective.
Discussion
Although Individualism and isolation was a phenomena associated with One-room Schoolhouse era, it is still a common feature in to today’s perspective. Using Dreeben’s (1973) observation to make his point, the author says that classrooms and school structures are still spatially scattered in many place...