This article examines the division within Chile's main teacher organisation caused by a dissident movement during the development of the new National Teaching Policy (PND), which occurred between the years 2014 and 2016. It focuses on the teachers' collective awakening and the internal logic of neoliberal teacher policies. Through interviews and…

The basic concern of this paper is to identify those demographic, occupational, and organizational variables that might differentiate between those professions that have higher levels of attitudinal militancy from those that exhibit less militancy. Semantic differential attitudinal data was collected from 414 teachers in two school districts and…

The attitudes that Mississippi public school teachers hold toward the use of collective, militant actions was the focus of the present research. Four-hundred and fifty elementary and secondary level teachers, representing a 75 percent response rate of the 600 randomly selected sample, responded to questions on the "Demographic Information…

This research report on teacher militancy, published by the Canadian Teachers' Federation, seeks to ascertain the extent to which various groups of teachers are prepared to adopt militant bargaining strategies, and to identify factors which may contribute to the development of militant attitudes. The report first broadly defines militancy among…

An identity identification model may be used to isolate and understand the conflicts in communication that teacher's unions experience with the surrounding community when they strike. A union's identity is those attitudes held in common by the members; its identification is the attitudes toward it held by those in the surrounding community. During…

Discusses the provocation and course of, and issues involved in, a teachers' strike in Buffalo, New York, at the start of the 1976-1977 school year from several points of view: namely, those of an assistant superintendent, several teachers, and outside observers. (JM)

An attempt to develop a predictive model of teacher militancy using the Automatic Interaction Detection technique is described. By employing teacher background characteristics and attitudes toward teaching, the resulting model explains a significant amount of the variation in the degree of teacher militancy in a medium size, midwestern city with…

The ways collective bargaining affects the operation of public schools are identified. Teachers covered by bargaining agreements, compared with teachers not covered, receive higher salaries and teach smaller classes. They also spend slightly less time instructing students but more time preparing for classes. The major difference detected in the…

THE FIRST PHASE OF A COORDINATED THREE-DIMENSIONAL STUDY OF TEACHER CHARACTERISTICS INVESTIGATED PLATFORM DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE STATE'S TWO MAIN TEACHERS' ORGANIZATIONS AND THE KNOWLEDGE, OPINIONS, AND ATTITUDES OF TEACHERS ON 11 ISSUES OVER WHICH THE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION AND FEDERATION OF TEACHERS AFFILIATES WERE IN CONFLICT. THE SECOND STUDY…

To enlarge and update the body of knowledge concerning trends in collective bargaining and to better prepare administrators for their roles in collective bargaining, the American Association of School Personnel Administrators' (AASPA) standing Negotiations Committee sent questionnaires to 750 administrators, teacher association leaders, and…