교직 정체성의 탐구 : 새로운 교직관의 정립을 위한 문제제기

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the meaning of the teaching profession through analyzing the teachers' teaching activities. For this purpose, the researcher reviewed various meanings of the profession as a key concept to find out the meaning of teaching profession, examined the views on the teaching profession as a profession and non-profession, and surveyed the educators'(teachers, educational administrators, and teacher's college faculty members) views on the teaching profession and' teaching activities.Conclusions of this study were as follows:First, the meaning of the teaching profession should be identified as a moral profession. Although this identification would not be empirically verified in nature, the researcher found out the facts that there were short gap between the above-mentioned identification and the educators' perceptions on the meaning of teaching profession. For example, most educators rather emphasized character-building, morality, aspiration, and affectivity than knowledge-centered subject matters in their teaching activities. Since this identification might emphasize the non-intellectual aspects of teaching activities, educators and researchers should make various efforts to find out how these matters could be applied into teaching activities. Second, educators' relative negligence on the importance of intellectual aspect in teaching activities would affect the professionalization of teaching negatively. Considering the facts that the public still would evaluate the success or failure of school teaching through such concrete factors as academic achievement, higher school enrollment rate, or employment rate, future teacher education should emphasize on the development of teaching processes and methods on the basis of theoretical and scientific knowledge. The reason is that emphasizing the intellectual aspect of teaching activities would be an another effective measure to professionalize teaching at anyway.Third, for the establishment of teaching profession as a moral profession, strong efforts, in addition to the above-mentioned means, should be made to alleviate the bureaucracy in school, to expand the teacher's professional autonomy, such as teacher's rights of choice on teaching contents, teaching methods, and student evaluation, and to promote teacher's involvement in school management.