Exploring the Role of Teachers Associations as the Protectors of Teachers Rights
This study was undertaken to examine the role of Teachers’ Associations as the protector of teachers’ rights. The study is based mainly on the interviews of education experts, researchers and experienced associations’ leaders. The researcher therefore intended to highlight a very important and positive role played by teachers’ associations. These associations are blamed for the present faulty education system and for the lack of co-ordination among various agents of education. Associations and their active leaders at secondary school level in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were chosen as the population of the study. Interviews were conducted with union leaders for the collection of useful data. The core finding of this study suggests that most of teachers’ associations are the protector of teachers’ rights. They solve the problems of teachers. However, they generally support their own members during transfer, promotion and on other occasions of benefits.
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Associations, Problem Solvers, Protectors of Rights, Reformers
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(1) Rahat Mand
PhD Scholar (Education), Sarhad University of Science & Information Technology, Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.
(2) Niaz Muhammad Aaijaz
Assistant Professor & HoD, Sarhad University of Science & Information Technology, Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.
(3) Nasrullah Khan
Assistant Professor, Department of Education, University of Poonch, Rawalakot, AJK.
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APA : Mand, R., Aaijaz, N. M., & Khan, N. (2018). Exploring the Role of Teachers Associations as the Protectors of Teachers Rights. Global Social Sciences Review, III(I), 71-82. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2018(III-I).05
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CHICAGO : Mand, Rahat, Niaz Muhammad Aaijaz, and Nasrullah Khan. 2018. "Exploring the Role of Teachers Associations as the Protectors of Teachers Rights." Global Social Sciences Review, III (I): 71-82 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2018(III-I).05
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HARVARD : MAND, R., AAIJAZ, N. M. & KHAN, N. 2018. Exploring the Role of Teachers Associations as the Protectors of Teachers Rights. Global Social Sciences Review, III, 71-82.
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MHRA : Mand, Rahat, Niaz Muhammad Aaijaz, and Nasrullah Khan. 2018. "Exploring the Role of Teachers Associations as the Protectors of Teachers Rights." Global Social Sciences Review, III: 71-82
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MLA : Mand, Rahat, Niaz Muhammad Aaijaz, and Nasrullah Khan. "Exploring the Role of Teachers Associations as the Protectors of Teachers Rights." Global Social Sciences Review, III.I (2018): 71-82 Print.
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OXFORD : Mand, Rahat, Aaijaz, Niaz Muhammad, and Khan, Nasrullah (2018), "Exploring the Role of Teachers Associations as the Protectors of Teachers Rights", Global Social Sciences Review, III (I), 71-82
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TURABIAN : Mand, Rahat, Niaz Muhammad Aaijaz, and Nasrullah Khan. "Exploring the Role of Teachers Associations as the Protectors of Teachers Rights." Global Social Sciences Review III, no. I (2018): 71-82. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2018(III-I).05