ABSTRACT
Research dedicated to the improvement of schoolteachers originates in the economic disaster that took place after the stock market crash of 1929. Three years after that calamity Willard Waller composed a radical sociological account in State College Pennsylvania that determined how teaching would be researched for 80 years. In particular, his account changed the way in which teachers would be conceptualized in American schools up to the present day. But Waller’s account is not really about the sociology of teachers and their development. His book is a humanization of the school institution as if it were a living organism with its own unique consciousness. This living organism lives in an economic world and Waller’s recommendations respond to the environmental challenges that faced school institutions in his economic world.
