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Teachers--United States--Job stress, Teachers--Job satisfaction--United States, Teacher morale--United States.
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1984
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LB2840.2.D85 1984eb
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371.1/0023/73
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Teachers--United States--Job stress, Teachers--Job satisfaction--United States, Teacher morale--United States.
TeachingThe Imperiled Profession
Daniel Linden Duke
Lewis and Clark College
State University of New York Press ALBANY
Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
State University of New York
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
For information, address State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, NY, 12246
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Duke, Daniel Linden. Teachingthe imperiled profession. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. TeachersUnited StatesJob stress. 2. Teachers United StatesJob satisfaction. 3. Teacher morale. I. Title. LB2840.2.D85 1984371.100237383-18181 ISBN 0-87395-788-1 ISBN 0-87395-789-X (pbk.)
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CONTENTS
PART I Symptoms of Sickness
1
CHAPTER ONE Domains of Disappointment
3
CHAPTER TWO Assessing the Vital Signs
8
PART II Changing Conditions of Work
23
CHAPTER THREE Ambiguity and Insecurity: The Trying Task of Teaching
25
CHAPTER FOUR Whats Happened to Johnny?
44
CHAPTER FIVE Complaints and ConstraintsThe Societal Context of Teaching
58
PART III Teachers in Search of Assistance
75
CHAPTER SIX How Helpful Is Higher Education?
77
CHAPTER SEVEN School Improvement Efforts and the Negative Side of Noble Ambitions
92
CHAPTER EIGHT Teachers Helping TeachersDoes the Patient Have the Cure?
105
PART IV Adversity as Impetus for Improvement
117
CHAPTER NINE Rx for the Teaching ProfessionEuthanasia or Rejuvenation?
119
CHAPTER TEN Reconceptualizing the Job of Teaching
134
NOTES
151
REFERENCES
164
INDEX
173
To Cheryl Duke
with thanks to Pat Schmuck, Susan Roper, Dennis Sauro,Vern Jones, Doug Morgan, and Marty Herdener
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Helen Keller
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PART I SYMPTOMS OF SICKNESS
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Chapter 1 Domains of Disappointment
Would you teach in a public school today? If you answered with an unqualified yes," you represent an ever dwindling number of people who still regard teaching as a viable occupation. For many, teaching seems unrewarding and uninspiring. College students no longer flock to education programs. The exodus of burned-out veteran teachers continues, despite uncertain economic conditions.
Who can blame these individuals? Public criticism of education has continued, unabated, for decades. The demands placed on teachers grow even as funds for schools are cut. Teachers are chagrined at the message Do more with less!" Taxpayers evidence less willingness to support public schooling than at almost any other period in U.S. history. Teachers are attacked symbolically in the press and all too realistically in classrooms and corridors. For all this travail the men and women who are heroic or masochistic enough to teach receive remuneration which often is less than that received by local sanitation workers, teamsters, and automobile mechanics.
A much-needed study is one that probes the reasons why some people continue to teach, despite the poor conditions. This topic is not my present concern, however. Rather, another question prompts this book: Is there reason to believe that teaching as a profession is any less viable today than in the past? Teachers, of course, have always had to cope with criticism, but my reading of educational history fails to find another era when their profession was so imperiled. Until recently, teaching was regarded almost universally as an essential service, a key element in the nations future. An expanding economy and birthrate ensured teachers a measure of job security. Changes, inside school systems and in the broader socioeconomic context within which schools exist, however, have confronted teachers and prospective teachers with a less-than-enticing career.
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