In my class the book stated that teaching is not a profession.
Do you think teaching is a profession?
Absolutely!
Professionals, such as lawyers, doctors, realestate agents and teachers must be licensed, therefore are professionals.
Re: Absolutely!
I can remember being in nursing school and being shocked and offended when the teacher posed the question of whether or not nursing was a profession. She said, “It wasn’t.”
One criteria for a profession is that practice is derived from the profession’s own base of scientific data.
1. Practice is based on scientific discovery.
2. The science is derived from the professions own data base not from another groups data. For instance nurses derived practice from medicine. This started to change after I went to nursing school with nurse researchers becoming popular.
Do teachers use scientificly based principles derived from other teachers? The definition requires that it be common practice within the profession not just the practice of some.
This is how the professor I had would define a profession.
If it isn’t a profession, what do they say it is? I would certainly hope that it is a profession! We are worse off than I thought if it isn’t.