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Scientification of teaching as State initiated professionalization: A road to professional status?

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Author

  • Margareta Nilsson-Lindström
  • Dennis Beach

Summary, in English

Today teachers in elementary and secondary schools aspire toward a professional status in the same category as that of engineers, business managers and lawyers. However, these ambitions are not an exclusively modern phenomenon. This paper analyses influences on professionalization efforts in relation to teaching and teacher education from a historical perspective. It traces efforts toward professionalism on a perilous road from a clerically consecrated to a scientifically grounded praxis with emphasis on the shaping and reshaping of teacher specific knowledge bases in teacher education.

Publishing year

2012

Language

English

Pages

1-16

Document type

Conference paper

Topic

  • Sociology

Keywords

  • professionalization
  • teachers
  • profession
  • historical perspective
  • sociology
  • sociologi

Conference name

Konference i Nordisk Netvaerk for professionsforskning

Conference date

2012-10-25 - 2012-10-26

Status

Unpublished