NDLI: Making Space between a Rock and a Hard Place: Teachers' Efforts at Reconciling Competing Criteria for Legitimacy.

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Making Space between a Rock and a Hard Place: Teachers' Efforts at Reconciling Competing Criteria for Legitimacy.

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Kelly, Philip P.
Copyright Year	1998
Abstract	This study investigated how teachers and their unions reconciled the competing criteria of legitimacy to which they were held accountable (unionism and professionalism), comparatively analyzing peer review-based teacher education programs/policies and the districts and unions supporting them. Researchers examined documentary artifacts for programs nationwide and conducted site visits and interviews in four districts. Interviews involved superintendents' office representatives, union presidents, school board members, peer evaluators, and evaluated teachers. Group interviews were conducted with teachers. Results indicated that teacher peer review programs offered unions an avenue for successfully reconciling the competing criteria for legitimacy, though implementation of peer review programs did not guarantee successful reconciliation. While there were strong supporters of peer review in each district, strong critics were not as evenly distributed. The strongest opposition to peer review within teachers unions occurred at state and national levels. All four programs contributed to the betterment of overall teacher quality, though these contributions were not sufficient to meet the professional criterion for quality. To do so, unions needed to take collective responsibility for self-regulated quality control of their members. Three of the teachers' unions accepted the requisite responsibility, with varying levels of effectiveness and program quality. (Contains 45 references.) (SM) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. Making Space Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Teachers' Efforts at Reconciling Competing Criteria for Legitimacy Prepared for the 1998 AERA Annual Meeting San Diego, California April 13-17, 1998
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED447087.pdf
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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