Abstract
The current study revolves around the ‘teachers – school administration’ interaction by
analyzing teachers’ work stories told to a training consultant (the researcher) in a private
Pakistani school.The study with inductive – qualitative – narrative inquiry, in its essence,
approaches the analysis of the collected stories under inter preterits research philosophy.
Numerous stories were collected, by the researcher, in 2014 – 15 to understand school issues
of the mentioned educational institute and to develop training materials on such issues out of
which five ‘teachers-admin interaction’ based stories, through purposive sampling, were
selected. The current study explores the selected stories to understand the cultural aspect of
school, personality aspects of the narrator and impact of teacher-admin interaction on
student learning process. Data triangulation in the form of participant observation,
descriptive and reflective field notes and stories has been done. The Creswell (2007) and
Ollerenshaw (1998) approaches of socio-literal analysis were utilized respectively. The
stories reveal the transgressions of the various aspects of the school’s social order. The
teachers through their stories express their hidden meaning and reaction against the dealing
style of the administration staff members. These stories disclose what social order the
teachers of the school intend to preserve and in what way.
Dr. Hafiz M. Irshadullah, Dr. Hafiz M. Inamullah, Irfanullah Khan. (2019) The Tacit Knowledge Revealed: Narrative Analysis of the Work Stories of Teachers, Sir Syed Journal of Education & Social Research (SJESR), Volume-02, Issue-1.
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