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V. Collins (1962)
The Role of the Teacher in the Physical and Mental Health of ChildrenAustralian Journal of Education, 6
R. Goodman (1960)
The Will-O'-The-Wisp of Professional StatusAustralian Journal of Education, 4
G. Orwell (1937)
The Road to Wigan Pier
The Australian Journal of Education VOLUME 7 NUMBER 3 OCTOBER 1963 L. C. WEBB I have given this paper the title which is set down in the programme, but in fact it is a little misleading. What I have to say might more appropriately carry the heading" Teaching as a Profession: Fact or Neurosis". My first doctoral student when I came to the Australian National University was Rupert Goodman, whose thesis on "The Status of Australian Teachers " is so full of good sense that I could wish it had been published. Goodman began his thesis with an exhaustive examination of the writings in teachers' journals, Australian and overseas, about teacher status. From a survey of this rather depressing literature two conclusions emerged: (1) Teachers here and everywhere have an almost obsessive concern with problems of status. (2) Teachers habitually make two claims about their status which are in conflict. The first is that they constitute a profession but that the community does not accord to them the status which members of a profession are entitled to expect. The other is that teaching ought to be a profession but is not. There thus arise two questions which it seems
Australian Journal of Education – SAGE
Published: Oct 1, 1963
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