کلیدواژهها
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Teacher autonomy, Pedagogical curriculum evaluation, Decision making, Problem solving, EFL teachers, Iran, Turkey
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چکیده
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Abstract
The study aimed at examining Iranian (N= 218) and Turkish (N=142) high school EFL
teachers’ opinions about teacher autonomy over (a) the choice of appropriate teaching methods,
strategies and techniques and implementation of the established curriculum (b) teacher
involvement in decision making processes and (c) teachers’ use of personal initiative in solving
their work problems. An 11-item questionnaire (α= .758) was used to measure autonomy
perceptions of the participants. The results revealed that Turkish teachers’ autonomy perceptions
were greater than that of Iranian teachers in the three teacher autonomy dimensions. Moreover, it
was observed that male and master- holder teachers perceive less autonomy than female and
bachelor-holder ones; whereas, no significant relationship were observed for the age and marital
status variables with any teacher autonomy dimensions. Lastly, decision making dimension was
the strongest predictor of teacher autonomy among both Iranian and Turkish teachers.
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