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School & Society: Chapter 10
Teaching as a Public Institution: The Professional Movement
Chapter Ten
Teaching in a Public Institution: The Professionalization
Movement
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School & Society: Chapter 10
Teaching as a Public Institution: The Professional Movement
Professionalization of Teaching: Historical Perspective
• Common school reformNormal schoolsSpecialized body of knowledgeBeginning tension between state
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School & Society: Chapter 10
Teaching as a Public Institution: The Professional Movement
Professionalization of Teaching: Historical Perspective
• Progressive era reformmore rigorous academic preparation
for teachersscientific management of schooling professional administrators
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School & Society: Chapter 10
Teaching as a Public Institution: The Professional Movement
Professionalization of Teaching: Historical Perspective
• Conant era reformmore preparation in contentoverall less emphasis on teaching
as method for improving schools
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School & Society: Chapter 10
Teaching as a Public Institution: The Professional Movement
Contemporary School Reform The Professionalization Question
• Is teaching a profession?• Does it meet professional criteria?
Goodlad's conditions• Teacher preparation
The Holmes GroupThe Carnegie Report
• Career ladders
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Teaching as a Public Institution: The Professional Movement
Contemporary School ReformTeaching as a Public Profession
• Is teaching a distinctive profession?
• Herbst’s contrast of professionalization and professionalismfunding for a “mass public profession”teaching as predominantly female
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Teaching as a Public Institution: The Professional Movement
Contemporary School ReformPublic Control Vs. Professional Autonomy
• Major government actors
• Specific interest groups
• The knowledge industry
• Limited teacher autonomy
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Teaching as a Public Institution: The Professional Movement
Legal Control Structure• State government and local control
state sets education policy, creates rules and regulations, sets minimal standards
local control via school boards and superintendents
• Federal influenceconstitutionally supported lawscivil rights amendments to Constitution
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Role of U.S. Supreme Court• Rights of parents vs. state cases• Equal protection cases
desegregation casesTitle IXschool finance
• Religious observations in Public Schools• Free expression• Due process• Privacy
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Extralegal Influences on Schools
• Foundations
• Textbook publishers
• Standardization
• Teacher unions
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Teaching as a Public Institution: The Professional Movement
Concluding Remarks
• Is “professionalization” the answer to improving schooling?
• What knowledge, dispositions, and skills do teachers need to be the best teachers they can be?
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School & Society: Chapter 10
Teaching as a Public Institution: The Professional Movement
Developing Your Professional Vocabulary
• Brown v. Board of Education
• career ladders• democratic ethnics• due process protection
in schools• expert management• Holmes Report
• Lau v. Nichols
• National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
• profession
• professional autonomy
• professional ethnics
• professionalization vs. professionalism
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