Comparative table between vocation and teaching profession

Luis Enrique Pérez Díaz

Javier Alvarez Ruiz
Edgardo Osorio Zapata

San Alfonso University Foundation

Bachelor of Theology
Educational Epistemology
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 Comparative table between vocation and teaching profession
Teaching Vocation
Vocation is defined as the natural inclination
to dedicate oneself to the professional activity
of teaching with enthusiasm, commitment and
confidence in the power of education, special
dedication and service to others.
Therefore, it has to do with the person.
Way of feeling fulfilled:
In addition to the duty fulfilled and achieving
the goals of the professional activity, the
satisfaction of having achieved professional
fulfillment is added.
The vocation is older and was historically
linked to the Catholic religion and controlled
by ecclesiastics.
The vocation involves having attitude,
openness, service to the community and
working in flexible teams.
The teaching vocation was linked to
effectiveness and a type of exemplary life of
irreproachable morality, oriented towards
knowledge of ethical duties and rights, which
can be assumed as a moral commitment and
demanded of others.
In the vocation, teaching others is conceived
as a work of mercy and it was not understood
that someone would dedicate themselves to
teaching without feeling the need to help
others.
The teaching vocation is oriented towards the
calling that the person has, with a sense of
service to others, of spiritual dedication and
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Teaching Profession
The profession is defined as the activity
carried out by the professional to acquire and
share prior knowledge through the planning,
development and evaluation of teaching and
learning. Just as it has a field of knowledge
that is its own. (Alvarez, 2015).
Therefore, it has to do with the job.
Way of feeling fulfilled:
He is satisfied with the duty fulfilled, when he
achieves the goals of the professional activity.
The profession is relatively more recent,
because school education did not become
widely widespread until well into the 19th
century.
The profession implies having certain
competencies, in terms of adequate scientific
and technical professional training that makes
one competent at all times in the exercise of
the profession.
The teaching profession participates
more in the production of goods and services.
This integration or differentiated approach is
greater in the knowledge society, where
organizations take on a greater role.
In the profession, teaching is conceived as a
job or professional activity, carried out in
exchange for a salary, in accordance with
accepted working conditions or a contract
with the employer, whether public or private,
for the achievement of purposes, as in any
labor process.
In the teaching profession, the person assumes
the responsibility of acquiring professional
skills that prepare them to carry out their
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adaptive and disinterested in material goods. rights.
The vocation has generally been associated Defends labor and professional interests. The
with spirituality and unconditional service. profession requires specific training that
The teaching vocation is, so to speak, more enables the legal practice of the profession
informal, spontaneous, altruistic and authorized by the competent academic
economic disinterest. authority, which avoids professional
intrusion and which allows access to the free
contracting market.
In today's society, vocation tends to be In today's society the profession is
considered something archaic, out of fashion. considered innovative, scientific and
technological.
Despite the vocation being older, it was In the profession, the existence of regulations
developed under religious regulations tending that regulate the functions and actions of
to consider teaching as a priesthood of “ teachers is required for the effective
well-balanced men, of ideal temperament, of performance of professional activities, an
love for all great things, of developed ethical code that binds the professional and
intelligence, of simple and noble tastes.” , of their clients, and control over professional
pure customs, healthy in spirit and body, and performance to maintain the quality of the
worthy in thought, word, work. teaching service.
work and even ways, of serving the sacred
cause whose pursuit is entrusted to them.”
The vocation has historically benefited The profession entails a social benefit
institutions for the most part; The dominant because the entire society can benefit directly
power has been the most interested in or indirectly from professional practice.
promoting the vocation as an instrument to There is an increasing increase in the
control who taught, what they taught and demands of the family and society on
how they taught it, and to make up for teachers, demanding new functions and
material and formal deficiencies necessary greater quality in the teaching-learning
for professional performance. processes.
The exercise of one's vocation does not allow The exercise of the profession allows the
full development from a professional and sustenance and development of working life,
economic point of view, since there is a lack family and social; since conditions are
of means to develop it as a profession, and in created for the exercise of the profession.
some cases, one is not sufficiently
professionally trained.
The vocation is a complement to the A good profession is developed with
profession. vocation.
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