The Status of the Teaching Profession

Focusing on the historical development of the teaching profession, this book explores how the relationship between education and the formation of modern nation states has influenced both the status of the profession as a whole and the differential status accorded to different kinds of teachers within it.

Autorentext

Xavier Dumay is Professor of Education and the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded project Teachers Careers at UCLouvain, Belgium.

Katharine Burn is Associate Lecturer in Education at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

Inhalt

Foreword. Introduction: The status of the teaching profession. 1. Patterns of segmentation within the teaching profession and teacher education in England, 1870-2020. 2. The segmentation of teacher professionalisation: The American experience. 3. Old and new segmentations: The case of the teaching profession in French-speaking Belgium. 4. The teaching profession in France since the late nineteenth century: Greater integration or reinforced segmentation? 5. Schooling and the professionalisation of teaching in Sweden: A socio-historical perspective. 6. Segmentations of the teaching profession in South Korea: Historical trends and contemporaneous reconfigurations. 7. The teaching profession in Brazil: Inherited segmentations and reconfigurations in neoliberal times. Afterword.