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Filipino teachers’ experiences of supportive relationships with colleagues: A narrative-biographical inquiry

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The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore teachers’ experiences of supportive relationships with colleagues. A total of fifty (50) public and private elementary and secondary school teachers in the central part of the Philippines were purposively selected as respondents. Guided by a narrative-biographical interview, results of the study yielded four significant themes that describe how Filipino teachers as relational people experience and interpret supportive relationships in the school setting. These include: supportive relationships as (1) a life-giving force; (2) an extension of one’s family; (3) a reciprocal process; and (4) a work still in progress.

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  1. University of Santo Tomas, UST Center for Educational Research and Development, Room 201 Thomas Aquinas Research Complex, España, 1008, Manila, Philippines

    Ramona M. Viernes & Allan B. de Guzman

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This paper is a segment of her dissertation entitled: Evolving a Continuum of Filipino Teachers’ Worldview of Pedagogy based on the Narrative-Biographical and Micro-Political Perspectives.

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Viernes, R.M., de Guzman, A.B. Filipino teachers’ experiences of supportive relationships with colleagues: A narrative-biographical inquiry. Asia Pacific Educ. Rev. 6, 137–142 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03026781

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