Teachers as disempowered and demoralised moral agents: School board management and teachers in Hong Kong

Teachers as disempowered and demoralised moral agents: School board management and teachers in Hong Kong

• Tsang, Kwok Kuen Beijing Normal University

British Journal of Educational Studies, 67(2), 251-267, 2019

Routledge

2019

• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MF Characteristics & Conditions of Educational Workers
• R Educational Policy & Administration
  • RE School Management, School-Parents Relationship

Self-Efficacy in Teachers Education Ethics Educational Change School Administration Moral Agent (Philosophy) Employee Morale Demoralisation Disempowerment Goal Moral Agent Teacher

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

This study argues that teachers are disempowered and demoralised moral agents. Specifically, it uses a qualitative study of Hong Kong teachers to show that teachers' agency in the pursuit of the moral goal of education is socially disempowered. The study shows that although teachers are committed to the moral goal of education, the obstacles to attaining this goal result in demoralisation. The difficulties consist of technical disempowerment (deprivation of power over one's labour) and cognitive disempowerment (deprivation of power to identify the instructional value of teachers' work), which are induced by managerialist educational reforms and school administration.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 00071005

• 10.1080/00071005.2018.1497770

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/ee0ec11b

2020-03-03