Identifies commonly accepted characteristics of professions and proposes as the most important defining property of a profession the availability of a useful, communicable technology based in a reasonably coherent intellectual discipline. The qualifications of psychology as a profession, with special emphasis on clinical applications of…

Drawing on his personal experience as a modern day school administrator, John M. Brucato believes that there is a pathway to survival, success, and enjoyment in the role of a school leader that keeps the focus on meeting the needs of young people, while nurturing relationship with all stakeholders responsible for bringing this to fruition.…

This study attempted to (1) expand the dichotomous classification scheme typically used by educators and researchers to describe teaching incentives and (2) offer administrators and teachers an alternative framework within which to develop incentive systems. Elementary, middle, and high school teachers in Ohio rated 10 commonly instituted teaching…

A profile of Tony Aveni, the 1982 Professor of the Year, is presented. A popular teacher who has also played a central role in founding the discipline for archeoastronomy, he has organized three seminal conferences in the field and has been at the center of curriculum reform at Colgate University. (MLW)

The connections between class and gender must be recognized if attempts to rationalize and proletarianize teaching are to be understood. Behaviorally-specified curriculum, prepackaged programs, and repeated testing and accountability measures represent attempts by state governments and by male administrators to wrest control of instruction from a…

Arguments for and against merit pay are weighed, and merit pay's probable effects on teacher morale and motivation are discussed. Different types of programs are reviewed, including: (1) bonuses based on student or teacher performance; (2) individualized productivity plans; (3) differentiated staffing; and (4) the career ladder approach. (PP)

The third in a series reviewing research articles on the role of the employment service counselor. Discusses counselor activities, the ideal counselor role, real-ideal role discrepancies, and special problems. Suggests employment service counseling differs significantly from both job placement interviewing and traditional vocational counseling…

Discusses current problems in engineering education, including faculty shortages, growing undergraduate and declining graduate enrollments, aging facilities and obsolescent laboratories, status and needs of and opportunities for engineers, and the quality of engineering graduates. Proposes some solutions to resolve the problems. (SK)

Lists concerns and recommendations of secondary school chemistry teachers related to: (1) safety; (2) curriculum development; (3) chemistry teaching profession; (4) multi-national problems (such as greater prestige for chemistry teachers in their community); and (5) student characteristics. (JN)

Granting of licenses to practice has long been linked to academic credentials, but this system offers more protection to the professions than to the public. There is an immediate need to break the credentials monopoly by opening up alternative routes to obtaining credentials. (Author/MLW)

Considers the social and political changes social workers may be faced with in the remainder of the century, and how the profession will react, in four scenarios. A national commission considering "future histories" describes possibilities ranging from heroism and expanded influence to loss of professional identity for social workers. (Author/JAC)

Teachers, and their organizations are promoting a professional structure modeled after the legal and medical professions. Such a model excludes the community from providing input into policy decisions. An alternative is to divide issues into those which are clearly competitive versus those which should be cooperative. (Author)

Counselors' attempts to clarify their roles for their employers and/or supervisors have achieved limited success because supervisors and employers continue to heap administrative tasks upon counselors. This leads to a reduction in counselor-client contact hours and an increase in counselor burnout. (Author)

Professional women may have difficulties combining the role of professional worker with that of wife and mother. Describes common issues which face women, discusses methods for coping with competing demands, and presents a structured approach for helping women conceptualize the issue and choose appropriate intervention strategies. (Author)

Offers some guidelines for the management of technical professional personnel (scientists, researchers, engineers), emphasizing that these people have different philosophical approaches to their work and identify with their professional orientations rather than with the organization. Research and development management should provide for their…