Educational reforms and their impact on the teaching profession

Profession is an autonomous social system based on the fact that the work emanates in some form of scientifically produced knowledge. The purpose of the knowledge overview is to find out how the political arena has shaped subject teachers as a profession. Our question for the essay is: What does the educational science research say about how political decisions and governance have affected the teaching profession? The method in the overview was based on research after making a selection based on the relevance to our defined area of the 649 search results (which arefurther presented in the method section). Through this we have gained an insight in how political decisions have changed the teacher’s identity that has once been very strong. The background to this project is that the teachers’ profession is changed by political reforms in the era throughout the 1990s - 2000s. The reform municipalization of the school in 1991, is described as a part of the reduction of the teacher’s control, weakening of the profession and loss of autonomy. The New Public Management - model was spread through the 1890s - 1990s and is a resultoriented management as a streaming of the schoolwork unit. The reform where freedom of choice and competition among schools brings us to problems that we are encountering today, we have a strong grade inflation, especially among private schools. We are also noticing that various market forces have contributed to inequality and segregation in schools. The teacher education reform in 2001 was a change where the government shifted the discourse in the teaching profession by replacing the scientific knowledge base with pedagogical work and allowing therapists to enter school businesses. The political reforms are commonly discussed by researchers as the beginning process of the teachers’ deprofessionalization