Abstract:
This chapter outlines attempts to professionalise teaching in New Zealand. It highlights the effects of changing views of the role of teachers and control of their work. This history of the efforts of teachers expressed through their organisations principally, the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) established nationally in 1883, the New Zealand Free Kindergarten Union in 1913 (KTA) and the Post Primary Teachers, Association (PPTA) established in 1952, to pursue conditions that mirrored those of long-established professional bodies.