teaching

Introduction
The status of teachers
- The economic status
  - Salaries
  - Fringe benefits and other advantages
- Social and occupational status
- Geographic mobility of teachers
- Stereotype of the teacher
- Building the profession in a new country
- The teaching profession in Russia
Functions and roles of teachers
- Role in curricular design
- The doctrine of in loco parentis
- Extramural activities of teachers
- Scholarship and the profession
The career of the teacher
- The professionalization of teaching
- Educational associations and teachers’ unions
  - Professional associations
  - Teachers’ unions and teachers’ associations

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Robert J. Havighurst

Professor of Education and of Human Development, University of Chicago, 1941–65. Specialist on the social psychology of education and human development. Author of Comparative Perspectives on Education...

Robert J. Havighurst

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teaching, the profession of those who give instruction, especially in an elementary school or a secondary school or in a university. Measured in terms of its members, teaching is the world’s largest profession. In the 21st century it was estimated that there were about 80 million teachers throughout the world. Though their roles and functions vary from country to country, the variations among teachers are generally greater within a country than they are between countries....

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