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Article: A postcolonial perspective of secondary physical education teachers' value orientations in sub-Sahara Africa: the case of Ghana.(PEDAGOGY)
- Article from:
- Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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Teachers' educational value orientations influence their educational decisions (Eisner, 1992; Ennis, 1994; Pajares, 1992). Ennis and her colleagues have done extensive work on teachers' value orientations in the United States. Their original work used the Value Orientation Inventory (VOI; Ennis & Hooper, 1988) consisting of: disciplinary mastery, (DM), learning process (LP), ecological integration (EI), self-actualization (SA), and social reconstruction (SRC) subscales. The "social reconstruction" value orientation was later changed to "social responsibility" (SR) on the revised versions, VOI-2 (Ennis & Chen, 1993) and VOI-Short Form (Chen, Ennis, & Loftus, 1997). To ...