Risking Autonomy: Comparing Teachers and Senior Leaders in England and Turkey

Hammersley-Fletcher, Linda ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4443-6856, Kilicoglu, Derya and Kilicoglu, Gokhan (2019) Risking Autonomy: Comparing Teachers and Senior Leaders in England and Turkey. In: European Educational Research Association: European Conference on Education Research Annual Conference (ECER 2019), 03 September 2019 - 06 September 2019, Hamburg, Germany.

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Abstract

Increasing workloads are allowing less time for teachers to recuperate and recover in periods of rapid change (Skaalvik & Skaalvik, 2011) leading to teacher, teacher compliance and loss of motivation, pride and creativity (Lundström, 2015). Engagement in decision-making can be both a solution, where this facilitates a sense of teacher autonomy, or a problem, where engagement in decision-making becomes an additional burden against a heavy workload (Van Droogenbroeck, Spruyt, & Vanroelen, 2014). As Pietarinen et al. (2013) argue, workload distress is exacerbated where teachers feel a lack of control, meaninglessness and a sense of unfairness.