Türkiye'de öğretmen emeğinin tarihsel dönüşümüne ilişkin ekonomi politik bir çözümleme

Abstract

This research aims to analyse the historical transformation of teacher's labour in Turkey in association with the historical change process based on the own experiences of teachers. In this research, the change process in teacher's labour is analyzed based on the teachers' narratives relating to their work experiences and life conditions, the meanings they attribute to education and their work, their comprehensions relating to their roles together with the changing labour process of teaching. In this context, the transformation of teacher's labour is analyzed in a framework for understanding and explaining how the teachers live the change in their work, how they give meaning to this process and how they get involved in it, not as the effects that the structural conditions creates on teacher's labour. The subject of the research is described on the basis of the data obtained from the interviews by using a semi-structured interview form that is accordant with the qualitative research approach. In-depth interviews are conducted with 40 teachers in order to obtain the narratives of them relating to their life stories, working conditions, labor processes, organizations and the meanings they attribute to education and teaching. The research shows that there've been important changes in teachers' work experiences and life conditions, the meanings they attribute to education and teaching, their comprehensions relating to their roles with the change in their labour process since 1950 in Turkey. While the increasing control is eliminating the teachers' relative control on their labour process and also their autonomy because of the standard exams, guide books, new management paradigm, developing technology, it also results in their moving to get out of the decision-making processes. The commodification of educational services transforms the meaning the teachers attribute to education and his/her work, as it causes changing of labour process of teaching, his/ her relations with the other components of school and society. Despite ongoing discourse that teachers play an important role in social change, the interviews show that teachers' professional and social roles are increasingly changing.