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Several years ago, when speaking with a university department head, I heard a comment about a truck driver's statement on the national news. Discussing an impending national strike, the driver said, "Truck drivers are professionals and should be paid accordingly." We commented among other things, "So what is a professional? What occupations are professions?" The department head remarked, "I wonder if all full-time paid employees are professionals; I certainly don't think of truck driving as a profession." A nearby staff assistant immediately responded, "My brother is a truck driver and he is a professional!"Amving at the status of profession, especially within the academic community, is often perceived to be more difficult for the activities of both teaching and academic advising. Describing academic advising by itself as a profession is reminiscent of Smiths (1980) haunting characterization of teaching as a semi-profession. There are parallels between the activities of teaching and academic advising primarily when we attempt to describe tasks of teaching and advising as a profession rather than a semi-profession. TeachingThe professional status of teachers has been a major theme in educational research throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. To some extent, the ongoing struggle to professionalize teaching finds legitimacy in the fields affiliation with the science of psychology Psychologists' construction of scientific theoretical knomledge bases about learning, development, motivation, personality, and intelligence subsequently impounds on the professionalization of NEW DIIIECnONS FOP T€ACHING AND ILARNING, no. 62. Summer 1995 0 J 0 u e y -h~~ Publishem 97

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