An Empirical Study on Teachers'Role In Consumptive Society

本研究的目的是考察消费社会中教师的角色，重点关注教师工作的强化和教师的决策。在对东京的一所小学和一所初中进行的民族志研究中，我发现了三个主要的教师工作强化的来源：1）教师的时间表超负荷; 2）教学活动的多样性和多维性;意外事件的增加，一方面是因为学童偏离了学生的角色，另一方面是因为科层重组影响了教师的工作环境和教学文化。在教师自主权问题上，笔者指出教师自主权的范围越来越明确，但也受到了一定的限制。

The purpose of this study is to examine the teachers'role in the consumptive society focusing on the intensification of teaching job and the teachers'decision making.In my ethnografic research at an elementary school and a jonior high school in Tokyo, I found three major sources of intensification of teaching job : 1) the over-loaded schedule of teacher 2) the extraordinary varaiety and multidimensionality of teaching activities 3) the increase of unanticipatory occasions stemmed from children who deviate from their pupils role (student role) .On the other hand bureaucratic reorganization influence the environment of teachers'workplaces and the culture of teaching. As for the issue of teachers'autonomy, I pointed out the range of teachers'decision became more clearly and have been restricted.