ABSTRACT
The traditional approach to teacher recruitment and training was broken as a result of the Second World War, when there threatened to be a serious shortage of teachers. In consequence, in 1943, the Board of Education devised a scheme for the provision of emergency teachers' training colleges. Teachers are beginning to function differently: there is far more team-teaching and interaction between one academic subject and another, and this is bound to affect personal relationships in the process. The teacher finds it increasingly difficult to hide behind a specialism and to pursue a segregated life in a subject-room. The professional and social status of the teacher has for a long time been in some doubt, particularly at a time when school teachers recognized a class difference among themselves. As P. W. Musgrave has pointed out, the teacher stands in a peculiar relation to the rest of society.
