scholarly journals Crisis and Reconstruction of Teachers’ Professional Identity: The Case of Secondary School Teachers in Spain

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Bolívar ◽  
Jesús Domingo ◽  
Purificación Pérez-García
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Individual Interviews

While the teachers’ identity crisis is a recurring dilemma, it has acquired its own set of characteristics at the end of modernity. In addition, there are characteristics specific to secondary school teachers in Spain. Therefore, this topic must be placed within the broader framework of the modernity crisis and the academic community. From a narrative-biographical perspective, identities are constructed within a socialization process, like a story. This article describes the design of a study on the professional identity crisis of secondary school teachers in Spain. The study sequentially combines different individual interviews and focus groups. The research can be considered a collective case study, a multiple case study (individual interviews), and a greater collective study (focus groups). Finally, this article presents some of the study’s main conclusions. Identity is crucial to how teachers construct the nature of their work on a daily basis (motivation, satisfaction and competence). Therefore, and given the current crisis, it is necessary to evaluate alternative discourses that can lead to better school systems and a reconstruction of teachers’ identity in the academic community.

scholarly journals Challenge of Integrating Tawhid in Science and History

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-51
Author(s):  
Riski Munandar Hutapea ◽  
M Husnaini ◽  
Tahraoui Ramdane Murad
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Teaching Science ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Islamic Schools ◽  
Ultimate Objective ◽  
Purposive Sample

This study aimed to highlight the challenge that Secondary School teachers face in integrating the Islamic concept of tawhid in teaching science and history subjects. The research employed a qualitative design using a case study and collect data. A purposive sample consisting of 5 teachers from Al-Amin Islamic Secondary School was selected based on teaching experience. The teachers were interviewed according to a theme-based strategy, and collected data was transcribed and analyzed accordingly. Findings have shown that integrating tawhid in the subjects of Science and History is an aim that teachers in Islamic schools in Malaysia hope to achieve. However, obstacles and challenges continue to hinder their efforts. Theoretical and practical propositions and recommendations to make this aim achievable, such as revisiting the concept of tawhid integration, enhancing teachers' creativity skills in the classroom, and providing relevant training programs by school authorities, would undoubtedly help attain their ultimate objective.

scholarly journals Teachers' Voice in Zambia

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 388-397
Author(s):  
Jianhua Luo ◽  
Gift Muyunda
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Curriculum Development ◽  
General Education ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
Development Center

Curriculum Development in Zambia is highly centralized, with the Curriculum Development Center (CDC) being charged with developing the curriculum through consultative and participatory approaches through the course and subject panels where teachers are engaged. Nevertheless, there has been no empirical evidence to show how teachers are actively involved in the development process. This study aimed to investigate the phenomenon of teachers' involvement in the curriculum development process in Zambia. This study was qualitative and used a case study design approach. Data was collected using a semi-structured interview guide from secondary school teachers and headteachers. Raw data were collected through semi-structured interview forms from secondary school teachers and headteachers. The researcher analyzed the data using MAXQDA qualitative software to identify initial codes and generate emerging themes quickly. The results showed that secondary school teachers were dissatisfied with the present way of curriculum development, which insignificantly neglects them, and also, the majority of them have never participated in the development of the curriculum. Further, the results revealed that most of the secondary school teachers in Lusaka were willing to participate at any stage of the curriculum development in Zambia. This study concludes by arguing that secondary school teachers are significantly neglected to participate in the curriculum development in Zambia and recommends that the Ministry of General Education (MoGE) broaden the scope of secondary school teachers' participation in the curriculum developed through the Curriculum Development Center (CDC).

scholarly journals Identidad profesional docente en aspirantes a profesorado de enseñanza secundaria

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Alfonso Pontes ◽  
Leopoldo Ariza ◽  
Rosario Del Rey
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Initial Training ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Initial Development ◽  
The Past ◽  
The University ◽  
Teaching Professional ◽  
Formación Docente

Resumen: Dentro de la línea de investigación sobre el pensamiento de los docentes, en este trabajo se muestran los resultados de un estudio destinado a explorar las ideas y motivaciones de los futuros profesores de educación secundaria sobre la profesión docente y la formación pedagógica necesaria para ser profesor en esta etapa educativa. Mediante el Cuestionario sobre interés por la docencia y la formación inicial (Pontes, Ariza y Sánchez, 2010) se han explorado las opiniones de 353 alumnos y alumnas del curso de formación inicial para la docencia, que constituyen aproximadamente la cuarta parte de los estudiantes de la Universidad de Córdoba en los dos pasados cursos, es decir, los últimos que han cursado el CAP y los primeros que han realizado el Máster de Profesorado de Educación Secundaria. Entre los resultados se ha encontrado que los motivos de interés profesional por la docencia obedecen a diferentes causas y que están relacionados con distintas concepciones previas sobre la profesión y la formación docente. Los resultados obtenidos contribuyen al avance de la investigación sobre el desarrollo inicial de la identidad profesional docente entre los profesores y profesoras en formación y ofrecen claves para la mejora del proceso de formación inicial del profesorado de secundaria.Teaching professional identity of candidates for secondary school teachers Abstract: Within the line of investigation over teacher’s thinking, we show with this paper the results obtained from a research which aim was to explore the ideas and motivation of future secondary school teachers towards the teacher profession and the pedagogic training needed for being teacher in this educational stage. Through the Questionnaire about interest to teaching and initial training (Pontes, Ariza y Sánchez, 2010) we have explored the opinions of 353 students of the course of initial training for teachers, comprising a quarter of the students of the past two courses of the University of Cordoba and being the last students of the CAP and the first of the Master degree. Among the results we have found that professional interests towards teaching obey to different reasons and that these reasons are related to diverse prior conceptions about the teacher profession and its training. The results obtained contribute to the advance of the investigation about initial development of the teaching professional identity of training teachers and provide with some keys for the improvement of the initial training process of the secondary school teachers.

scholarly journals The Professionalism of Certified Teachers in Instructional Process: A Case Study of Secondary School Teachers in Jambi

AL-TA LIM ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-92
Author(s):  
Muhammad Syahran Jailani
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Instructional Quality ◽  
Civil Servant ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Certified Teachers ◽  
Instructional Process ◽  
Teaching Commitment

The purpose of this research is to reveal teaching commitment of certified teachers who teach in private Madrasah in Jambi to increase the learning. The participants are teachers (civil servant) who teach in several private Madrasah in Jambi. It is the phenomenology qualitative research, referring to the eleventh steps proposed by Spradley (1980). This research revealed two important findings. First, the teachers realize that they need to be committed in their teaching as a way to improve their professionalism and also instructional quality. The second important finding is that there is a lack of supervisory effort to supervise certified teachers, and thus there has no coordination between teachers and the stakeholders. This makes MGMP and KKG does not run effectively.

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