Students, Teachers, School Personnel
This area concerns the people of education — students, teachers, and school personnel: their roles, careers, knowledge, and development.
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Scope
It covers teacher education and professional development, teacher knowledge and careers, the teaching profession, and student roles and experience.
Sub-topics
- White Students
- White Teachers
- Reading Consultants
- Remedial Teachers
- School Cadres
- School Nurses
- Science Teachers
- State Supervisors
- Tutors
- Women Faculty
- African American Students
- African American Teachers
- Minority Group Students
- Minority Group Teachers
- Agriculture Teachers
- Vocational Education Teachers
- Nursing Students
- College Bound Students
- Teacher Interns
- Alumni
- American Indian Students
- At Risk Students
- Art Teachers
- Music Teachers
- Asian American Students
- Beginning Principals
- Potential Dropouts
- Special Needs Students
- Physical Education Teachers
- Student Athletes
- Transfer Students
- Adjunct Faculty
- College Faculty
- Nontenured Faculty
- Beginning Teachers
- Master Teachers
- Bilingual Students
- Bilingual Teacher Aides
- Bilingual Teachers
- Advanced Students
- Pregnant Students
- Resident Advisers
- Public School Teachers
- Business Education Teachers
- Experienced Teachers
- Early Childhood Teachers
- Catholic Educators
- Lay Teachers
- Child Development Specialists
- Elementary School Students
- College Freshmen
- Financial Aid Applicants
- College Students
- High School Seniors
- College Seniors
- Commuting Students
- Resource Staff
- Resource Teachers
- School Psychologists
- Continuation Students
- Terminal Students
- Cooperating Teachers
- Nonmajors
- Part Time Students
- Full Time Students
- Differentiated Staffs
- Paraprofessional School Personnel
- Junior High School Students
- Middle School Students
- Elementary School Teachers
- Education Majors
- Educational Researchers
- Evaluators
- Television Teachers
- Part Time Faculty
- Middle School Teachers
- Specialists
- Substitute Teachers
- English Teachers
- Language Teachers
- Administrators
- Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers
- Student Volunteers
- Foreign Student Advisers
- Foreign Students
- High School Freshmen
- High School Teachers
- Secondary School Teachers
- Hispanic American Students
- Itinerant Teachers
- College Applicants
- School Personnel
- Industrial Arts Teachers
- Trade and Industrial Teachers
- High School Students
- Junior High School Teachers
- Reading Teachers
- Writing Teachers
- Academically Gifted
- Adult Educators
- Adult Students
- Mathematics Teachers
- Evening Students
- Nontraditional Students
- Reentry Students
- Self Supporting Students
Core questions
- What knowledge do effective teachers have?
- How do teachers develop professionally?
- What shapes the teaching career and profession?
- How do students experience school roles?
Key concepts
- Teacher knowledge
- Pedagogical content knowledge
- Teacher socialization
- Professional development
- Teaching as a career
- Teacher education
Key theories
- The teaching profession
- Waller and Lortie analysed teaching as an occupation with distinctive culture, socialization, and constraints.
- Pedagogical content knowledge
- Shulman identified the special knowledge teachers need to make subject matter learnable.
History
The study of teachers developed from Waller's and Lortie's sociology of the occupation to Shulman's analysis of teacher knowledge, shaping teacher education and professional standards.
Debates
- Is teaching a profession?
- Debates over teacher autonomy, expertise, and status as markers of professionalism.
Key figures
- Willard Waller
- Dan Lortie
- Lee Shulman
Related topics
Seminal works
- waller-1932
- lortie-1975
- shulman-1986
Frequently asked questions
- What is pedagogical content knowledge?
- Shulman's concept of the special knowledge teachers have for making particular subject matter comprehensible to learners.