Open AccessTeaching as a profession in Nigeria: problems and prospects
Author(s) -
Rotimi Williams Okunloye
Publication year - 2012
Language(s) - English
DOI - 10.47963/jem.v6i.411
Subject(s) - medical education , engineering ethics , political science , sociology , pedagogy , psychology , medicine , engineering
This paper examines the ranging controversy about the professional standing of teaching in Nigeria and the factors that contributed to the prevailing status and rating of teaching as a profession in Nigeria. It further examines the challenges and prospects of its becoming a highly rated profession of comparable standing to other well established profession in the future. The paper also proffers suggestions on how to effect a positive turn around in the professional status of teaching in Nigeria.