This volume contributes to debates about the teaching profession by reviewing international and
national reports on its status as well as on reforms of various education systems. It proposes
a global approach to the quality of the teaching profession as a decisive ingredient of
education quality including a conception of its identity and a vision of its future. Moreover
it is suggested that professional self-regulation may be the best way to achieve higher
professional and social status for teachers since it allows educators collectively to assume
the culture of the values that comprise the uniqueness and fullness of the teaching profession.
