Educational Policy I: educational administration and teachers’s professionalism

In the introduction are briefly reviewed issues relating to education policy and reform, in order to highlight and understand the complex dimensions in relation to the attempted changes for teachers and their work. The first part is a critical analysis of teaching and the general work of teachers, in order to highlight the particular characteristics and the importance of attempted institutional changes linked to the professionalism of teachers. In the second section are the necessary conceptual clarification of key terms used in the course, such as profession, professionalism, professionalization. Then it outlines the sociological tradition of the theory of professions, in order to understand the contemporary debate about the professionalism of teachers. The next section describes the current debate on the professionalism of teachers, as follows from the theory and research. Based on this discussion examines the relationship between promoting the professionalism of teachers and reconstruction of education management system. Moreover, it becomes critical analysis policies and practices related to the professionalism of teacher education and administration in Greece in recent decades. Knowledge relating to professionalism and teacher professional development issues is helpful for the Department F.P.PS. students and other departments prepared and willing to teach or teach already in education.

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