Recent Developments in the Professionalisation of Teaching Have Emphasised the Importance of Values. in the Light of Your Own Experience Examine the Extent to Which Personal Values Support or Conflict with Professional Objectives.
Recent developments in the professionalisation of teaching have emphasised the importance of values. In the light of your own experience examine the extent to which personal values support or conflict with professional objectives.
In this paper it will be necessary to look at what professionalisation and values are, what they mean, and if they have any relevance within teaching in todays Further Education system. To fully understand the above statement and explore it further, it is necessary to dissect the title and investigate exactly what is professionalisation and and how its development came about. The Labour Government asked the Lifelong Learning UK to initiate new professional standards for teaching in Further Education in 2004. These standards were set up to clearly outline what was expected of tutors, lecturers and educators including their roles and responsibilities. They were developed specifically in response to calls from Ofsted for more easily perceived standards with an emphasis on ability of teaching a particular subject or activity.
We will be looking at these new standards to see if they have contributed to developments in teaching within the FE system and supported professionalism of educators or if they have been detrimental. Before continuing let us look at some definitions to clarify what exactly professionalisation is. The following are taken from the online Oxford English Dictionary.
Profession - a paid occupation, especially one that involves prolonged training and a formal qualification: his chosen profession of teaching
Professional - a person engaged or qualified in a profession.
Professionalisation - give (an occupation, activity, or group) professional qualities, typically by increasing training or raising required qualifications.
It could be argued that professionalism and professionalisation are contradictory to one another, it is all very well to improve standards of knowledge and skills but not at the failure of ignoring
In this paper it will be necessary to look at what professionalisation and values are, what they mean, and if they have any relevance within teaching in todays Further Education system. To fully understand the above statement and explore it further, it is necessary to dissect the title and investigate exactly what is professionalisation and and how its development came about. The Labour Government asked the Lifelong Learning UK to initiate new professional standards for teaching in Further Education in 2004. These standards were set up to clearly outline what was expected of tutors, lecturers and educators including their roles and responsibilities. They were developed specifically in response to calls from Ofsted for more easily perceived standards with an emphasis on ability of teaching a particular subject or activity.
We will be looking at these new standards to see if they have contributed to developments in teaching within the FE system and supported professionalism of educators or if they have been detrimental. Before continuing let us look at some definitions to clarify what exactly professionalisation is. The following are taken from the online Oxford English Dictionary.
Profession - a paid occupation, especially one that involves prolonged training and a formal qualification: his chosen profession of teaching
Professional - a person engaged or qualified in a profession.
Professionalisation - give (an occupation, activity, or group) professional qualities, typically by increasing training or raising required qualifications.
It could be argued that professionalism and professionalisation are contradictory to one another, it is all very well to improve standards of knowledge and skills but not at the failure of ignoring
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