Public Attitudes About Primary School Teachers: a Perspective of the Sociology of Professions

U ovom završnom radu istraživani su stavovi javnosti o nastavnicima u osnovnim školama. Teorijsko polazište rada predstavlja funkcionalistički pristup profesiji, tj. polazi se od procjene elemenata koji su potrebni kako bi se određeno zanimanje okarakteriziralo kao profesija u sociološkom smislu. Rezultati istraživanja ukazuju na različite elemente na temelju kojih je moguća daljnja profesionalizacija nastavničkog zanimanja kao značajan dio obrazovne politike i prakse, no ispitanici smatraju kako nastavnici obavljaju kvalitetan posao usprkos nedostacima povezanim s trenutnim uvjetima rada.In this paper, public attitudes about teachers in primary schools were investigated. The theoretical starting point of the paper represents a functionalist approach to the profession, i.e. it starts from an assessment of the elements that are necessary in order to characterize a certain job as a profession in the sociological sense. The results of the research point to various elements on the basis of which further professionalization of the teaching profession is possible as a significant part of educational policy and practice, but respondents believe that teachers perform quality work despite the shortcomings associated with current working conditions