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Confirming and Resisting an Underdog Position--Leisure-Time Teachers Dealing with a New Practice
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Hjalmarsson, Maria; Hultman, Annica Löfdahl – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2015
The article focuses on how leisure-time teachers (LtT) in Sweden both confirm and resist the array of new demands related to leisure-time centres (LtC). The data consist of interviews with six LtTs. The results are interpreted as representing different parts of the LtT's professionalism and show that the LtTs through their tellings constructs…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leisure Time, Leisure Education, Recreational Facilities
Physical Education Teachers' Professionalization: A Review of Occupational Power and Professional Control
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Kougioumtzis, Konstantin; Patriksson, Goran; Strahlman, Owe – European Physical Education Review, 2011
This article reviews research on physical education (PE) teachers' professionalization considering their relative position at schools and in the community as well as their control over the lesson formation. The position considers issues of prestige, status and esteem while lesson formation regards constitutional, organizational and physical…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Professional Recognition, Status, Professional Autonomy
Discourses of the Early Years Learning Framework: Constructing the Early Childhood Professional
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Ortlipp, Michelle; Arthur, Leonie; Woodrow, Christine – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2011
In Australia, as elsewhere, many factors have contributed to making the struggle for recognition of the professional status of early childhood difficult and ongoing. Arguably this has led to instabilities surrounding professional identity and how members of the field regard themselves and their work. The development and release of the Early Years…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Professional Recognition, Status
May I Be Excused? Why Teachers Leave the Profession
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Buchanan, John – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2010
Considerable research has been conducted into teacher retention. Less is known of ex-teachers' circumstances: salary, workload, working conditions, "job prestige". For this study, telephone interviews were used to ask 21 ex-teachers about their journey from teaching, and views on their current working conditions by comparison. This paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Teaching Conditions
Teachers, Professionalism, and Craft.
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Pratte, Richard; Rury, John L. – Teachers College Record, 1991
Improving teachers' professional status involves identifying salient professional characteristics. The paper compares teaching with other professions. Teachers belong to a group of craft professions different from elite expert professions. Teacher education must produce skilled practitioners with a consciousness of craft to guide their work. (SM)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Professional Recognition
Expanding the Leadership Team.
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Lieberman, Ann – Educational Leadership, 1988
Explores "second-wave" reform efforts aimed at restructuring schools and reshaping teacher roles to permit greater autonomy, responsibility, and status. As better working conditions increase teacher satisfaction, education will compete more favorably with other professions as a career choice. Includes 16 references. (MLH)
Descriptors: Cooperation, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Flexible Scheduling