Looking Back and a Little Forward: Reflections on Professionalism and Teaching as a Profession

The author goes back to her earlier work on professionalization, in which she argued that aspiring professions aim at converting one order of scarce resources into another: credentials, as proxies for expertise, into protected opportunities, special status, and work privileges. This effort implied a...

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Main Author: Magali Sarfatti Larson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2014-05-01
Series:Radical Teacher
Online Access:http://radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/radicalteacher/article/view/112