Who Is This Person We Call Teacher? (1969)
Authors George E. Dickson and Samuel L. Creighton argue in the February 1969 issue of Educational Leadership that teachers are increasingly in the contradictory state of being more "militant" for social change, yet still overly conservative.
In "Who Is This Person We Call Teacher?" the authors lay out society's traditional view of teachers ("appreciators of excellence" and "enemies of shoddiness," among other traits) and issue a call for the profession to reconcile these two competing states.
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Dickson and Creighton state that militancy is the "dominant characteristic that differentiates the contemporary teacher from his predecessor" and that this militancy is justified. In the wake of the social change of the 1950s and '60s, teachers were increasingly demanding better working conditions, more responsibility, and higher pay. Yet, the authors also express
