Pot, Inge (2022) The Professional Teacher: How Teachers experienced the Status and Prestige of their Profession in the Netherlands in the late Nineteenth Century. Master thesis, Pedagogical and Educational Sciences.
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Abstract
A common sentiment nowadays is that teachers in the past used to have a higher status, which begs the question of what the position of teachers in the past actually was. In this thesis, the status of teachers in the late nineteenth century in the Netherlands has been further investigated. The research question was what elementary teachers perceived to be their desired status within the schools and in Dutch society from 1889-1895. To gain insight into the experience of the teacher, a journal called De Bode was used. This journal was published by a teacher union called “Bond van Nederlandse Onderwijzers”. Teachers were in fact very dissatisfied with the status and prestige of their profession. Their main complaints regarding status were topics on salary, the relationship with the government, teacher training and lack of independence within the school. The position of head teacher turned out to be essential to how teachers saw their own status. In comparison to the head teacher, teachers had little influence in the school and were much less appreciated. The one underlying theme to all of these complaints was the dissatisfaction with their status and prestige within society and within the school. These teachers felt underappreciated, even though their occupation had professionalized significantly during the nineteenth century. Teachers experienced that both their occupation status and occupational prestige was low, there was a clear discrepancy between how they perceived their own profession opposed to how they were treated.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Westberg, B.A.J. |
| Degree programme: | Pedagogical and Educational Sciences |
| Differentiation route: | Ethics and Education: philosophy, history and law [Master Pedagogical and Educational Sciences] |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Aug 2022 10:00 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Aug 2022 10:00 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1283 |
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