{"product_id":"memories-of-a-georgia-teacher-fifty-years-in-the-classroom-9780820322599","title":"Memories of a Georgia Teacher: Fifty Years in the Classroom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMemories of a Georgia Teacher\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMartha 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hoyle B. Puckett, Martha Mizell Puckett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/28\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.12h x 6.42w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820322599\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartha Mizell Puckett (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e MARTHA MIZELL PUCKETT (1897-1974) was an educator for most of her life. The Martha Puckett Middle School in Jesup, Georgia, is named in her honor. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHoyle B. Puckett Sr. (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e HOYLE B. PUCKETT SR. is retired from the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He is also an emeritus graduate professor of agricultural engineering at the University of Illinois. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40202803609715,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":50.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_417096ee-0601-4462-9bda-36f261d0dbcc.jpg?v=1656252716","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/memories-of-a-georgia-teacher-fifty-years-in-the-classroom-9780820322599","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}