Abstract: Over the ages, humanity has been classist and getting divided more than united over issues of life and existential living. Hargreaves argues that kinds of life jobs have also become one of the classist stoop to divide people according to their employments to the effect that other jobs have been argued to be not equal with others and some people suffer less respect than others. It requires a critical thinking that the profession that foundationally and literally serves as the basis of all professions is now argued to be not a profession but somehow something like a mere calling and a mission. It is on that backdrop that I hereby endeavor to use analytical theory to analyze and critique views that came forth to argue different perspectives concerning the practice or the career of teaching. This writing is to set forth that since teaching has the requirements of a skilled labor and a profession; it makes more sense than not to consider it a fully-fledged profession that requires a paramount status like other professions. It is in fact a noble profession because it even produces all these other known professions. Since this paper defends the importance of teaching as a profession I set forth to settle some incoherent questions that critics of education offer to downgrade teaching as a profession. With analytic theory I will be able to peruse and critically analyze the available literature, and without any bias or stereotype, I will be able to offer my defensible views as amicable as possible. Since the purpose of this study is to analyze the available literature and investigate the understanding of scholars with regards to this concept of professionalism and profession, analytic theoretical framework will be used. My basic argument is that it is not the case that teaching should be a profession, but that it is in fact a fully-fledged profession that should be recognized as such by all other professionals. With my stated purpose and aim of this study it becomes quite clear that its importance lies in defending teaching as a noble profession that deserves an equal honor and respect at a similar level with other established professions. At the end, this study is aimed at clarifying the mysteries and misconceptions that tend to discourage some people who want to start a career in education/ teaching as an honorable profession.
Keywords: Teaching, Profession, Classism, Professionalism.
Title: Knowledge is a paramount virtue: A critical defense of the nobility of teaching profession
Author: Mohammed Xolile Ntshangase
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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