Technical and vocational teacher education practice: profession or semi profession?

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The article discusses the meaning attached to the concept profession, and in that context, it\nhas been examined whether the practice as teacher in technical and vocational education\ncan be defined under the concept of profession or semi-profession. For us, it is interesting to\nexamine the concept profession through the professional demands within the frame of an\nacademic education and the work performed by a teacher in vocational education. In\nNorway, a teacher in technical and vocational education has no academic background, but\nhas, instead, a combination of expertise in a craft or/and the vocational training as the basis\nfor his/her teacher education. In the final discussion we emphasize that vocational teacher\ncan be considered a profession today if we consider the European Qualifications Framework\n(EQF) as a basic standard

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