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Educators' perceptions, experiences and expectations about professionalism versus unionism in education
Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2008.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/30713 Educators' perceptions, experiences and expectations about professionalism versus unionism in education pkroukamp@webmail.co.za Dr I J Prinsloo Kroukamp, Pieter UCTD Professional people Serveice delivery Continuous professional development Professionalism Unionism Values Ethics Morals Culture of teaching and learning Constitutional rights Duties and obligations Conduct Integrated quality management system Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2008. Educators are the key agents in the quality of the education system who are members of a profession or professional people. In education this profession is an occupation with a crucial social function. Important values centre on the interests of the clients (learners) and are made explicit in a code of professional ethics. This implies that there should be an exemplary and professional lifestyle. Professional ethics refers to the code of conduct or ethical code, which serves as a guideline on how to behave. The integration of these ethics into the purpose, mission and goals of the organisation is of vital importance, as ethics forms an integral part on how the organisation defines itself and how things are done within a specific organisation. Educators also have a constitutional obligation to respect, to protect, to promote and to fulfil learners’ right to education (section 29 of the Constitution) in a safe and disciplined school environment (section 24 of the Constitution). However, educators are in terms of the Labour Relations Act (Act 66 of 1995) also workers with the right to join a workers union of their choice and to take part in the different forms of industrial action to promote or defend the socio-economic interests of workers. The problem however, is how to cultivate the culture of a school to encourage all educators to enhance their professionalism and employ the help of their union in doing so. This study draws a distinction between continuous professional development and unionism in education. Here the perceptions, experiences and expectations of educators come into play in regard as to how they perceive their own professionalism versus unionism. Finally, Principals and School Management Teams should ensure that their school based professional development programmes are established at schools in conjunction with what unions do to ensure that all educators participate in appropriate curriculum delivery. Copyright Education Management and Policy Studies MEd restricted 2013-09-09T07:25:26Z 2010-03-30 2013-09-09T07:25:26Z 2009-09-01 2008-03-30 2010-03-30 Dissertation Kroukamp, P 2008, Educators' perceptions, experiences and expectations about professionalism versus unionism in education, MEd dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03302010-174915/ > F10/166/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30713 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03302010-174915/ en © 2008, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Professional people Serveice delivery Continuous professional development Professionalism Unionism Values Ethics Morals Culture of teaching and learning Constitutional rights Duties and obligations Conduct Integrated quality management system Educators' perceptions, experiences and expectations about professionalism versus unionism in education |
| title | Educators' perceptions, experiences and expectations about professionalism versus unionism in education |
| title_full | Educators' perceptions, experiences and expectations about professionalism versus unionism in education |
| title_fullStr | Educators' perceptions, experiences and expectations about professionalism versus unionism in education |
| title_full_unstemmed | Educators' perceptions, experiences and expectations about professionalism versus unionism in education |
| title_short | Educators' perceptions, experiences and expectations about professionalism versus unionism in education |
| title_sort | educators perceptions experiences and expectations about professionalism versus unionism in education |
| topic | UCTD Professional people Serveice delivery Continuous professional development Professionalism Unionism Values Ethics Morals Culture of teaching and learning Constitutional rights Duties and obligations Conduct Integrated quality management system |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30713 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03302010-174915/ |