Teachers' In-Service Career Patterns.
Abstract Schoolteaching is not a consensual profession with a single culture, but one segmented by different interest groups. An important dimension of the culture of these professional segments is their commitment to either a restricted or an extended professionality. Teachers’ relations to professionality can be clarified from their theory and practice of in‐service education and from the type of in‐service career upon which they embark. The form taken by teachers’ continuing education, the way teachers rank different types of in‐service course, how experience of in‐service education touches the professional work of schools ‐ these are factors that pattern teachers’ in‐service careers. Using data about teachers’ practices in these three areas, five career patterns are identified and a group of teachers representing each career pattern is selected. The teachers are described in terms of personal biographical and work characteristics. Their opinions about what makes in‐service education attractive to them...
The Political Implications of Defining Relevant INSET
Summary In this paper the author argues that the norm of relevance is central to teachers’ professional identities and therefore decisions about the form taken by INSET are crucial for professional autonomy. An important ingredient of the professional teachers’ conception of relevance is a notion of the practical. Ascribed factors like gender and age and situational factors like specialisation and seniority affect the orientations of different groups of teachers to relevance. At present teachers notions of relevant INSET are under attack from norms and values prescribed by interests outside the profession for the purpose of regulating the profession. This paper attempts to clarify teachers notions of relevant INSET and contrast these with other views of relevance.
Pasteurella haemolytica serotype 1 colonization of the nasal passages of virus-infected calves.
Nasal passages of calves with a virus-induced respiratory tract disease became colonized by Pasteurella haemolytica serotype 1 after they were inoculated intranasally with P haemolytica. Inoculation with infectious bovine rhinotracheitis virus caused a more severe clinical illness and resulted in a greater degree of colonization with P haemolytica than developed after inoculation with parainfluenza-3 virus. Nasal passages of parainfluenza-3 virus-inoculated calves were colonized to a greater degree with P haemolytica than were those of healthy, nonstressed calves. Calves were susceptible to P haemolytica colonization during or shortly after virus-induced illness, even though they had been previously exposed to P haemolytica and had serum antibody and nasal secretion antibody to P haemolytica.