Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 An Overview of Teaching as a Profession -- Teachers and Learners -- The Professions: A Review and Assessment -- Teaching as a Profession -- 2 The Market for Schoolteachers -- Supply and Demand -- Demography: The Battle of the Bulge -- The Social Characteristics of Marginalized Teachers -- 3 Teacher Characteristics -- Overview -- Gender Distribution -- Ethnicity -- Socio-economic Origins -- Age Structure -- Educational Attainments -- Teacher-Training Institutions -- Value Orientations and Pragmatic Practices -- Characteristic Profile and Trend Summary -- 4 Conditions of Work and Career Patterns -- Terms of Employment -- Scope of Work -- Recruitment and Attachment -- Remuneration -- Performance Evaluation -- Autonomy and Control -- Satisfactions and Dissatisfactions -- Status Attainment and Community Relations -- 5 Teacher Associations -- Historical Origins -- From Consultation to Confrontation -- Unionization and Professionalization -- The Limits of Confrontation -- 6 The Political Environment -- Public Accountability -- Private Alternatives -- 7 Education, Pedagogy, and the Public Interest -- Education: The Search for Consensus -- Pedagogy: The Search for Authority -- Public Interest: The Search for Intervention -- Appendices -- A Tables -- B Figures -- C Data Bases Utilized in the Study -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W
Summary
Alexander Lockhart offers a survey of elementary and secondary schoolteachers and presents a profile of the profession as a whole
