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Title	The professional education association movement and Utah : an interpretive history
Publication Type	dissertation
School or College	College of Education
Department	Educational Leadership & Policy
Author	Rees, Willard Dale
Date	1977
Description	This study is largely an examination of the rhetoric of the opponents and proponents of unionism. Statements are analyzed in the attempt to determine whether the motives of the arguing parties have been other than strictly educational. While the issue has centered around the meaning of professionalism, it is clear that a major concern of all parties is economic. The rhetorical arguments associated with merit pay, accountability, and class size are also examined. Findings again suggest that such arguments, although presented in educational terms, are based in large part on economic considerations. The research further suggests that since professionalism implies that a scientific body of knowledge should be used to settle issues, the question might be asked why such a knowledge has not conscientiously been sought to help solve such issues. The national scene is explored in general while the movement in Utah is analyzed more specifically. The Utah situation is studied to determine if the development of the teacher power movement in Utah has been affected by the prominence of the Mormon Church in the state and whether the development in Utah has been significantly different from the development nationally. Given the dominant role of the Mormon value system in Utah, and the explicit statements vis-a-vis unionism by Mormon leaders, one might expect the adoption of unionism by Utah teachers to proceed slowly. However, a close examination of actual developments in Utah since the late 1950's indicates that the movement in Utah has essentially followed the national pattern. In fact, Utah was one of the early states to adopt union tactics. Why this is so is largely left unstudied. It is suggested that this be a topic for future study.
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Publisher	University of Utah
Dissertation Name	Doctor of Philosophy
Language	eng
Rights Management	© Willard Dale Rees
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OCR Text	Show 13 readily available to anyone wishing to read them, for they have always been published either in Church magazines (such Era, Juvenile Instructor, Instructor, or both. In addition, an Ensign) indexed-by-subject ox as Improvement Conference Reports book of statements of recent and present general authorities is available and has proven to be very useful.23 own statements Also, some concerning Mormonism aspects of life. are useful ent than that of the in that or Carpet they represent to education. legislation concerning labor and An Enemy Hath Done a philosophy His much differ theses and dissertations written which relate to teacher power in Utah. gathering of editorials of labor of the regarding teachers and education. very usable and consolidated information. pertaining some UEA.24 There have been several deal with it relates to as Ezra Taft Benson's Red This both contain his feelings statements Church leaders have published their A few have provided Champlin provides a from the Deseret News and Salt Lake Tribune 25 in Utah unions.26 The 1956 Evans provides a study of good source Morgan's 1967 study of the development for LDS statements the 1964 Utah 23The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has published Living Prophets for a Living Church for the use of college students in the Church educational system. 24See Ezra Taft Benson, An Enemy Hath Done This (Salt Lake Parliament Publishers, 1969). See also Benson's The Red Carpet (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1962). City: 25Ardath Ivadell Champlin, "Editoria1 Policies of the Deseret News and the Salt Lake Tribune Newspapers Toward Education in Utah" (M.A. thesis, University of Utah, 1963). 26John Reese Evans, (M.S. thesis, University "A History of Labor of Utah, 1959). Legislation in Utah"
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