Õpetaja töö representatsioon 2008. aasta Postimehes ja Õpetajate Lehes

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2009

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Tartu Ülikool

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The Representation of Teacher’s Work in Postimees and Õpetajate Leht in 2008 The main subject of this Bachelor’s thesis is the representation of theacher’s work in Estonian newspapers Postimees and Õpetajate Leht. The aim of the thesis is to determine how the work that teachers do from day to day is represented and which characteristics are emphasized. The author tried to find the answers to the following research questions: Which tasks and roles do authors bring forth when writing about theacher’s work? How do authors appraise teacher’s coping with different tasks and roles? Which teacher’s characteristics and abilities do authors bring forth when writing about teacher’s work? The empirical material consists of 32 paper editions of Postimees and 53 of Õpetajate Leht. Only opinions, which were written about teacher’s work, were included. By theacher only a theacher in the classical sense was analyzed. Kindergarten teachers, special educators, psychologists, lecturers and others working in the field of education were left out from the thesis. Postimees was chosen, because lot of Estonians read it every day on the paper and also form the Internet. Õpetajate Leht is a special newspaper for teachers, which is mainly read by teachers themselves. By comparing these two newspapers, author is trying to determine wether authors of Postimees and Õpetajate Leht write similary about teacher’s work or are there any differences. Articles from the year 2008 were chosen to analyse the newest information available. A combined analysis method was used, combining the quantitative analysis and the qualitative. To find different tasks and roles, characteristics and abilities, teacher’s qualification standard was used. In both newspapers authors wrote the most about a teacher whose task is to instruct and motivate pupils. Secondly authors wrote about a teacher who is competence in her/his subject and is teaching it. All the tasks and roles found, authors’ appraisal was determined. In both newspapers positive appraisals exceeded negative ones. Analyzed characteristics and abilities were divided in two: features that teachers have in authors’ opinion and features that teachers should have when considering the context of their work. In Postimees and Õpetajate Leht authors brought forth that teachers working in schools are incompetent. Characteristics and abilities that teachers should have in authors’ opinion were without exeption positive. Authors from both newspaper brougt forth that in the first place a teacher should be competent and magisterial. When comparing the results of Postimees and Õpetajate Leht it appears that the representation of teacher’s work is quite similar. However authors writing in Õpetajate Leht do it in more positive way. The difference is nevertheless small.

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H Social Sciences (General), bakalaureusetööd, haridus, elukutsed, õpetajad, ajakirjandus, ajalehed, representatsioon

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