Teaching: Profession or Vocation?

Teaching as THE Oldest Profession.

Teaching Signal Processing to the Medical Profession

Knowledge of signal processing is very important for medical students. A medical signal may be used for monitoring, constructing an image, or for extracting the numerical quantity of a parameter. This information forms a basis for medical decisions. However, the processing of the signal may lead to distortion and an incorrect interpretation. The present article describes an educational practica...

Performance-related pay and the teaching profession

Sociology as a Vocation

What does it mean to live for sociology, today? In attempting to answer this question I return to Max Weber’s famous lectures delivered toward the end of his life—one on science as a vocation and the other on politics as a vocation. He presented ‘‘Science as a Vocation’’ in November 1917 toward the end of World War I and the more pessimistic ‘‘Politics as a Vocation’’ in January 1919 after Germ...

Are the More Academically Able Agriculture Teacher Candidates Not Entering or Remaining in the Teaching Profession?

The quality of education provided by public schools in America has been under considerable scrutiny in recent years. In his report to the public entitled, A Nation at &&, Gardner (1983) suggested that today’s beginning teachers are not as well qualified as those who previously entered teaching. Studies by Schlecty and Vance (1981) and Weaver (1984) suggested that the academic ability and/or qua...