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Title: | Opvattings oor onderwysverandering soos weerspieël in die metaforiese uitdrukkings van onderwysers |
Authors: | Booyse, Johan Swanepoel, Cassie |
Year: | 2007 |
Periodical: | Tydskrif vir geesteswetenskappe |
Volume: | 47 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 95-111 |
Language: | Afrikaans |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | language usage teachers attitudes |
Abstract: | This article analyses the South African data from a comparative study among teachers from six countries, including South Africa. The South African section of the investigation involved 37 teachers, representative of the general population of South African secondary school teachers in terms of ethnicity, age, gender, post level and teaching experience. The transcriptions of the interviews conducted with these respondents were used to identify and analyse the metaphors utilized by teachers with a high, medium and low involvement in change respectively. The frequency of metaphor usage, the differences between English and Afrikaans-speaking respondents as far as metaphorical expressions are concerned, the various source and target domains which constituted part of the teachers' body of metaphors, and the issues which prompted respondents to use metaphors in their explanations of matters related to change, are discussed. The findings reveal, amongst other things, that approximately two-thirds of the metaphors utilized were characterized by their negative inclination; Afrikaans-speaking respondents' experience of change was significantly different from that of their English-speaking colleagues; negative feelings regarding change often indicated a concern about the influence of change on the teachers' occupational environment and status. The findings seem to indicate that an analysis of metaphors can be regarded as a trustworthy research technique. Bibliogr., sum. in English and Afrikaans, text in Afrikaans. [Journal abstract, edited] |