AN EXAMINATION OF WORKPLACE SPIRITUALITY DEVELOPMENT IN SCHOOLS

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to determine the teachers’ opinions about the School Spirituality Program (SSP), designed to increase their spirituality level, perceptions of self and organizational values, and sense of transcendence and meaning at work. SSP lasted about 20 hours and is mainly composed of the sessions titled “Introduction to Workplace Spirituality, Meaningful Work, Transcendence, Self-Identity and Organizational Values”. Within the study in the academic year of 2016–2017, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 19 participants upon workplace spirituality based 6-weeks SSP. The participants' views about workplace spirituality program were presented in themes after content analysis. In qualitative discussions on the effectiveness of SSP, it was seen that the program positively affected the teachers in themes of "Life, School Relations, Self-Identity, Goals, and Meaning”. At the end of the SSP, the teachers noted impact on these five areas and indicated that they found the training program useful, it added awareness to their lives, put a new perspective on their work and revived the work related meaning. They also expressed that they learned more deeply about the spiritual phenomena, got to know more about themselves, and acquired purposeful integrity and true meaning awareness in their school work and relationships.

Keywords

• Workplace Spirituality,School Spirituality Program,Organizational Development,Teacher

OKULLARDA İŞYERİ RUHSALLIĞI GELİŞİMİ ÜZERİNE BİR İNCELEME

Abstract

Bu çalışmanın amacı öğretmenlerin ruhsallık, benlik ve örgütsel değer algıları, işte aşkınlık ve anlam bilincini artırmaya yönelik oluşturulan Okul Ruhsallık Programı (ORP) hakkındaki görüşlerini belirlemektir. ORP yaklaşık 20 saat sürmüş olup temel olarak “İşyeri Ruhsallığına Giriş, Anlamlı İş, Aşkınlık, Özalgı ve Örgütsel Değerler” oturumlarından oluşmaktadır. Çalışma kapsamında 2016- 2017 eğitim yılında işyeri ruhsallığı odaklı 6 haftalık ORP’ye katılan 19 kişi ile yarı yapılandırılmış görüşmeler gerçekleştirilmiştir. Katılımcıların işyeri ruhsallık programına ilişkin görüşleri içerik analizinden sonra temalar halinde sunulmuştur. ORP’nin etkililiğine ilişkin yapılan nitel görüşmelerde programın öğretmenler üzerinde “Hayat, Okul içi İlişkiler, Özbenlik, Amaçlar, Anlam” temalarında olumlu etkilere yol açtığı görülmüştür. ORP sonunda bu beş alanda etkiler belirten öğretmenler eğitim programını faydalı bulduklarını, programın hayatlarına farkındalık kattığını, işlerine yeni bir bakış açısı yüklediği, işsel anlamı geri getirdiğini belirtmişlerdir. Katılımcılar ayrıca programda ruhsal olgular ile daha derinden tanıştıklarını, kendilerini daha iyi tanıdıklarını ve okul içi çalışmalarında ve ilişkilerinde amaç bütünlüğü, gerçek anlam bilinci kazandıklarını ifade etmiştir.

Keywords

• İşyeri Ruhsallığı,Okul Ruhsallık Programı,Örgütsel Gelişim,Öğretmen

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