Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
5th World Conference on Educational Sciences (WCES), Rome, İtalya, 5 - 08 Şubat 2013, cilt.116, ss.1709-1714
In many parts of the world, particularly starting from 1980 a set of transformations is being experienced in the field of education. With these transformations while the meaning and content of the education changes, the teachers who are the most basic actors of education field are expected to keep pace with this change process and to be even active agents of this process. Therefore, it is possible to talk about the fact that some significant changes in education, employment and working conditions of teachers have been taking place in recent times. The discussions in literature in regards to efforts to understand and explain the change and transformations experienced in the profession of teaching are usually based on two main approaches. While in the first approach it is claimed that teachers are being "professionalized" over time, in the latter approach it is claimed that teachers are not professionals no longer, on the contrary, with the transformation process they are increasingly getting deskilled and hence are being "proletarianized". The aim of this study is that within the axis of profession of teaching and by focusing on theoretical discussions regarding "professionalization" and "proletarianization", to establish a theoretical framework to understand the changes experienced in teachers' work. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Academic World Education and Research Center.