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Professonalization and deprofessionalization of teaching

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Author

  • Margareta Nilsson-Lindström

Summary, in English

Teachers in elementary and secondary schools are striving for professional status. In todays fighting for higher salaries they rank themselves in the same category as masters of engineering, business administration and lawyers. However their ambitions are not an exclusively modern phenomenon. This paper analyze from a historical perspective todays neoliberal influences on teacher education and teaching as a turning point on the almost impassable road from a bishop consecrated to a scientifically grounded teaching praxis.

Publishing year

2012

Language

English

Pages

1-27

Document type

Conference paper

Topic

  • Sociology

Keywords

  • vertical discourse
  • horizontal discourse
  • teacher education
  • teachers
  • professionalization

Conference name

Conference Scientific Knowledge and Systems of Professions IUC

Conference date

2012-05-07 - 2012-05-11

Status

Unpublished