Time and teachers : an empirical and conceptual study of the competition for the available time in the classroom practice of teachers working in the Western Cape, 1989-1990

This study examines the role of time in the working lives of teachers in the Western Cape in the years 1989 and 1990. The study is based upon interviews with twelve teachers, all of whom were currently teaching or who had been teaching in the recent past. The interviews explored the attitudes and practices of the teachers regarding their timetables, free periods, extra-murals, marking practices and lesson preparation, meetings, homework practices, tests and examinations, and professionalism, in so far as these were affected by considerations of time. The study argues that conflict in schools is produced by the struggle for autonomy, particularly in the classroom practice of teachers, and that this struggle takes the form of competition for control of time. In particular, the study suggests that there are rankings of power and priorities in schools and that these can be better understood by examining the relationships between time, conflict and autonomy.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

School of Education

Year dc:date.issued

1990

Author dc:creator

• Reid, Robert Christopher Walter MacNeile

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Morphet, Tony

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15997

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/15997