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The role of the teacher in the classroom can be seen to constitute a sociological problem. The objective of this article is to understand teaching life and to discover how teachers construct meaning of their role in the classroom. There is a scarcity of literature pertaining to the role of the teacher. The only available literature is particularly of a positivistic nature which advances “number crunching.” None of the research is done from the point of view of the teachers. To understand what teachers are doing in the classroom, it was necessary to undertake an investigation from the perspective of the teachers themselves. This was done within a qualitative methodological framework.
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Makhanya, M.S. What Do Teachers Do? A Qualitative Analysis of the Role of the Teacher. Systemic Practice and Action Research 15, 123–144 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015240524597
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