As in the rest of the world, teachers’ roles have been changing in the Turkish educational system. In this process, their roles have been redefined as technical and social roles. In their technical roles, they focus on regular educational core tasks while in their social roles they dwell upon a wide range of social tasks besides teaching. However, there is a tendency to restraining their technical roles, which limits them to dealing with their social roles. As a result, they may lose interest and awareness of their social roles. Therefore, in the research reported on here we aimed to determine teachers’ perceptions of their awareness of their social roles. We also aimed to discover teachers’ efforts to realise these roles. For this purpose, we employed a qualitative phenomenological research design. The data were collected through interviews with 30 participant teachers chosen using the maximum sampling method. The data were analysed with the content analysis method. The results of this research reveal that teachers were mostly aware of their social roles. It was also found that participating teachers strove to realise their social roles. It is recommended that teachers’ social roles are emphasised more during their pre-service education and while performing their roles. Keywords: social roles; teachers; technical roles

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教师对他们对社会角色的认识以及履行这些角色的努力的看法

与世界其他地方一样，教师在土耳其教育系统中的角色一直在发生变化。在这个过程中，他们的角色被重新定义为技术和社会角色。在他们的技术角色中，他们专注于常规的教育核心任务，而在他们的社会角色中，除了教学之外，他们还专注于广泛的社会任务。然而，有一种倾向限制他们的技术角色，这限制了他们处理他们的社会角色。结果，他们可能对自己的社会角色失去兴趣和意识。因此，在这里报告的研究中，我们旨在确定教师对其社会角色意识的看法。我们还旨在发现教师为实现这些角色所做的努力。为此，我们采用了定性的现象学研究设计。数据是通过对 30 名使用最大抽样方法选择的参与教师的访谈收集的。数据采用内容分析法进行分析。这项研究的结果表明，教师大多意识到自己的社会角色。还发现参与的教师努力实现他们的社会角色。建议在教师的职前教育和履行职责过程中，更多地强调教师的社会角色。关键词：社会角色；教师; 技术角色 建议在教师的职前教育和履行职责过程中，更多地强调教师的社会角色。关键词：社会角色；教师; 技术角色 建议在教师的职前教育和履行职责过程中，更多地强调教师的社会角色。关键词：社会角色；教师; 技术角色