Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences

Yazarlar: Ilhan Günbayı

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Özet: This study examined the difference in the levels of the variables related to the school climate factors among the teachers teaching social science courses, the teachers teaching natural science courses, and the teachers teaching art, music and physical education. The data collected from a sample of 204 teachers from 9 urban schools serving general high school education in the centre of Afyon and Usak cities in Turkey by means of the questionnaire developed by the researcher in the academic year of 2001-2002. The questionnaire asked the participants to report the perceived school climate levels of the variables related to the organizational climate factors - organizational clarity and standards, team commitment, autonomy, intimacy and support, member conflict, rewards, and risk - on the open-to-closed continuum. The data collected were analyzed by t-test for Equality of Means and Analysis of Variance and Tukey post hoc tests. As a result of the analyzes, all the teachers reported open climate in relation to the factors of team commitment, organizational clarity and standards, intimacy and support , autonomy, member conflict, medium climate in relation to the factors of risk and in reward. Additionally, the teachers teaching art, music and physical education reported higher open school climate than others, man than women, single teachers than married ones, the teachers with more degree of education than the ones with a lower degree of education, older teachers than younger ones, and the teachers with less seniority than the ones with more seniority. Finally, some ideas were suggested about what should be done in helping teachers to work in a more desirable open school climate.

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