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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51763| Title: | Making teaching a profession : a comparative view |
| Authors: | Webster, J. R. |
| Keywords: | Elementary school teachers College teachers Education, Higher Teachers -- Selection and appointment |
| Issue Date: | 1984 |
| Publisher: | University of Malta. Faculty of Education |
| Citation: | Webster, J. R. (1984). Making teaching a profession : a comparative view. Education, 1(4), 6-10. |
| Abstract: | The traditional role of a 'teacher is that of the guardian and transmitter of spiritual wisdom. Thus in the Christian-west, teaching was originally the prerogative of the priest; in Islam that of the imam or mullah; in India that of the guru. In Europe, despite the growth of humanism and the gradula secion of education during the sixteenth centuries, the teacher in grammar school, gymnasium or lycee retained a special status. He may no longer have solely been concerned with the world of the spirit, but he still had esoteric and professionally useful knowledge that he could pass on to a privileged elite, a status that has been retained to the present century by teachers in universities and selective secondary schools. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51763 |
| Appears in Collections: | Education, vol. 1, no. 4 Education, vol. 1, no. 4 |
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