Reasons and Levels of Teachers’ Resistance to Change at Schools According To Inspectors’ Perspectives

Volume: 6 Number: 1 March 1, 2013
  • M. Akif Helvacı
  • İbrahim Çankaya
  • Aynur B. Bostancı
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Reasons and Levels of Teachers’ Resistance to Change at Schools According To Inspectors’ Perspectives

Abstract

This study aims to determine reasons and levels of primary school teachers’ resistance to change at schools according to inspectors’ perspectives. The sample of this descriptive study conducted in the 2009-2010 academic year consisted of 172 inspectors who are Union of All Inspectors (TEMSEN) members. The findings showed that teachers’ lack of knowledge of the change process and their reluctance to own new duties, roles, and responsibilities, lack of school capacity, school administrators’ ineffectiveness in management of change, and fear of being hurt by change are all under reasons of teachers’ resistance to change. Also, teachers’ level of resistance to change due to fear of being hurt by change is “medium” while due to other reasons, it is “high”.

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M. Akif Helvacı This is me

İbrahim Çankaya This is me

Aynur B. Bostancı This is me

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March 1, 2013

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March 1, 2013

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Year 2013 Volume: 6 Number: 1

APA
Helvacı, M. A., Çankaya, İ., & Bostancı, A. B. (2013). Reasons and Levels of Teachers’ Resistance to Change at Schools According To Inspectors’ Perspectives. Journal of Theoretical Educational Sciences, 6(1), 120-135. https://izlik.org/JA35XB54WX