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Give reasons why teaching in Africa has not been fully admitted to the status of a profession

      

Give reasons why teaching in Africa has not been fully admitted to the status of a profession.

  

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Lellah
- The length of training is less than five years. According to Etzioni fully fledged profession should have five years or more in their training.
- Teaching is a mass occupation which employs a lot of people and deal with many clients (employees’ even untrained personnel).
- Teachers are unionized fully fledged professions should be humanized not unionized. In fact, teachers have several trade unions e.g. KNUT, KUPPET, UASU.
- Autonomy. Teaching falls short in this aspect of power and autonomy in that teachers are often subject to rules regulations, terms and conditions of service decided even by nonteachers. Many governments bureaucratic and politicians who execute authority
over teachers are not trained teachers. They do not therefore sympathize with the plights of teachers.
- Commitment to a job. Commitment should be viewed as a way of life and not just another’s job.

Lellah answered the question on June 15, 2021 at 13:45


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