Introduction: Upper Secondary Science Teacher Quality - "Those Who Can"

Title
Introduction: Upper Secondary Science Teacher Quality - "Those Who Can"
Publication Date
2016
Author(s)
Vlaardingerbroek, Barend
Taylor, Neil
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8438-319X
Email: ntaylor6@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ntaylor6
Editor
Editor(s): Barend Vlaardingerbroek and Neil Taylor
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Place of publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
Edition
1
UNE publication id
une:19009
Abstract
"Those who can, do; those who can't, teach." --George Bernard Shaw. The great Irish iconoclast did not have a high opinion of the teaching profession. The schoolmaster of the nineteenth century was all too often the subject of mock respect rather than genuine esteem, and the Shavian view of the teacher as someone who could not succeed in his or her specialist field - the science teacher as someone not quite good enough to go into professional science, for instance - lingers on in the public psyche. But teaching is a profession (the International Labour Organisation classified secondary teaching as such, alongside doctors and lawyers, many years ago in its categorization of occupations), and akin to all professions, there are good practitioners and those who leave much to be desired. The focus thus shifts to those attributes that make for a good education professional, that is, teacher quality.
Link
Citation
Teacher Quality in Upper Secondary Science Education: International Perspectives, p. 1-5
ISBN
9781137490889
Start page
1
End page
5

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