Transcript Chapter Ten - Project Citizen: Byrd Academy

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 reform
Normal schools
Specialized body of knowledge
Beginning tension between state
control and teacher autonomy
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School & Society: Chapter 10
Teaching as a Public Institution:
The Professional Movement
Professionalization of Teaching:
Historical Perspective
• Progressive era reform
more rigorous academic preparation
for teachers
scientific 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 reform
more preparation in content
overall 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 Group
The Carnegie Report
• Career ladders
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School & Society: Chapter 10
Teaching as a Public Institution:
The Professional Movement
Contemporary School Reform
Teaching as a Public Profession
• Is teaching a distinctive profession?
• Herbst’s contrast of professionalization
and professionalism
funding for a “mass public profession”
teaching as predominantly female
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School & Society: Chapter 10
Teaching as a Public Institution:
The Professional Movement
Contemporary School Reform
Public Control Vs. Professional Autonomy
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Major government actors
Specific interest groups
The knowledge industry
Limited teacher autonomy
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School & Society: Chapter 10
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 influence
constitutionally supported laws
civil rights amendments to Constitution
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School & Society: Chapter 10
Teaching as a Public Institution:
The Professional Movement
Role of U.S. Supreme Court
• Rights of parents vs. state cases
• Equal protection cases
desegregation cases
Title IX
school finance
• Religious observations in Public Schools
• Free expression
• Due process
• Privacy
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School & Society: Chapter 10
Teaching as a Public Institution:
The Professional Movement
Extralegal Influences on Schools
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Foundations
Textbook publishers
Standardization
Teacher unions
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School & Society: Chapter 10
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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