Professional Responsibility for Education: Reconceptualizing Educational Practice and Institutional Structure

ISBN-13: 9781138549395 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 154 str.

Douglas E. Mitchell

Opis

By reconsidering the nature of professional work, renowned scholar Douglas E. Mitchell argues for reconceptualizing educational practices and institutional structures in ways that facilitate and protect educator professional responsibility.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Why this Book  2. What is Professional Work?  3. Worker Organization: Unionism and Professionalism  4. Professional Work Joins Ethics and Science to Create Vocation  5. Core Public Values Guide Professional Responsibility  6. Professionals Work in Institutions Rather than Organizations  7. Regime, Civil Society, and Professional Environments  8. Professional Paradoxes and School Reforms  9. Toward a Blueprint for Education Professionalism

O autorze

Douglas E. Mitchell is Professor of the Graduate Division at the University of California, Riverside. He is past-president of both the Politics of Education Association and the Sociology of Education Association and recipient of the Stephen K. Bailey Award for research contributions to the Politics of Education.