Teaching-The Imperiled Profession

By Daniel L. Duke

Book Overview

What is it really like to be a teacher today? Teaching-The Imperiled Profession goes beyond conventional analyses, to probe the profession and various threats to its viability. Daniel L. Duke has drawn on his own and current educational research-including surveys of teacher opinion, interviews with teachers, and press coverage of educational issues-to uncover and examine a complex array of factors that contribute to the troubled state of the profession and the unprecedented discouragement of its practitioners. The book also analyzes traditional sources of support.

Teaching-The Imperiled Profession provides prospective teachers with a realistic picture of the profession today. It identifies a set of concerns on which citizens might reasonably focus attention, in order to forestall any future deterioration. It provides the educator, administrator, and policy-maker with a comprehensive set of recommendations for revitalizing the profession. The book also serves as a concise history of the teaching profession as it has developed in the United States during the twentieth century.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087395789X
• ISBN13: 9780873957892
• Release Date: June 1984
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher