Construing teachers’ quality work : a principal view
Teachers are the most important school based factor for students’ learning outcomes and educational success. Whereas teachers’ pro-spects of enhancing their students’ development and study results, are significant for their work satisfaction and wellbeing. This suggests that the endorsement of quality teaching will improve student results and teacher wellbeing. Many teachers have difficulties performing in accordance to their professional standards, sick rates are alarmingly high, and several teachers leave the profession. This calls for a re-search approach where teachers’ prospects of performing quality teaching, are related to their options to perform quality-driven profes-sional teacher work, i.e. the work performed to support quality teach-ing. Such an approach take into account factors related to local school leadership, and the organisation of teacher work. This paper aims to bring together teachers’ and principals’ perspectives on quality-driven professional teacher work, in order to gain new knowledge and give implications for praxis. The principals and teachers construe teachers’ options to perform quality-driven professional work in relation to the implementation of a new curriculum and a new grading system, quali-ty certification processes and an ongoing work hour project, and to some extent also to the teachers’ personality and ambitions. The teachers’ also mention factors related to local oranisation processes, and the relations to pupils and fellow teachers.
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I antologin In Tension between Organization and Profession diskuterar en rad svenska och skandinaviska forskare olika vardagsproblem som individer i offentlig verksamhet upplever. Varfor tycks sjukfranvaro och utbrandhet standigt oka samtidigt som resurserna inom offentlig sektor blir allt mindre? Ar det forresten en bild som stammer? I denna antologi satts individen i centrum; det ar individens roll i ett storre kollektiv som undersoks. Nya organisationsstrukturer, teknologi och ledarskapsprofiler innebar att verksamheten inom offentlig sektor standigt forandras. I relationen mellan individ och struktur uppstar spanningar. Med exempel fran sa vitt skilda falt som larare, poliser och sjukskoterskor illustrerar forfattarna vilken typ av konsekvenser dessa spanningar orsakar. (Less)
Educational innovation in Musical Language Course: responses and the overcoming of limitations
This article presents an innovative methodological proposal for the development of auditory education in the course of the Language of Music. Based on this proposal, we analyze an educational community’s response to the innovations implemented, and we identify the limitations recognized throughout the learning and teaching process, as well as the strategies developed to overcome them. To this end, we applied a qualitative methodology with the classroom-based research method. The compilation of data was carried out through participant observation, captured in the journals of the professor and researcher, interviews and analysis of documents. The research results demonstrate that patience, responsibility and perseverance in their work on behalf of the professors have been key to overcoming the limitations identified and in promoting that students enjoy and learn their class contents in meaningful ways. Recibido 05/02/2018 Aceptado: 09/03/2018