Toward a Learning Profession: Changing Codes of Occupational Practice within the New Management of Education.

Nixon, Jon; Martin, Jane; McKeown, Penny; Ranson, Stewart

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ERIC Number: EJ571096

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1997

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Toward a Learning Profession: Changing Codes of Occupational Practice within the New Management of Education.

Nixon, Jon; Martin, Jane; McKeown, Penny; Ranson, Stewart

British Journal of Sociology of Education, v18 n1 p5-28 Mar 1997

Argues that professionals were once considered to be civic leaders; however, social changes have created a very different relationship between professionals and the public. Reviews changes in professionalism and outlines a new teacher professionalism based on the enabling of learning, the accommodation of difference, and the practice of agreement. (DSK)

Descriptors: Educational Change, Leadership, Leadership Qualities, Professional Recognition, Social Change, Teachers

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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