New employment policy and flexible working relations in education: A field research on substitute teacher in Eskişehir

The main purpose of this research is to make a sociological analyze to understand and explain how experienced substitute teacher's working conditions, living standarts, labour relations and labour process .İn this research, it is aimed especially to explain the opinion and attitudes of substitute teacher about the neoliberal process of changing working life, new forms of employment and flexible process in education, commercialization of education, marketing of information and educational institutions and structural transformation of the teaching profession. In addition to this, different perspective on the subject presented by giving the views of the directors of school and directors of educational unions. This research base on qualitative research methods. Working group of the study consists of not only 33 substitute teachers and 19 director of school affliated to Minister of National Education (MNE) but also 4 directors of educational unions in Eskişehir. As tool of data collection, the opinion of these three componenet of education about flexible and insecure employment types of substitute teachers were taken by interview. In the light of the data obtained from the fieldwork employment diversity and structural transformations in the teaching profession make many differences in the life of substitute teachers from economic, social, cultural and occupational aspects. Substitute teachers have been cope with low pay, job insecurity, future uncertainty, work instensity and irregular working hours. Substitute teacher employment cause to additional workload to directors of school. It has also been found that the substitute teacher employment, obstructed a great obstacle to the formation working peace and institutional culture by causing not also the reduction of the prestige and attractiveness of teaching profession but also the worse possibilities of teacher in the same job due to the different working condition and the weakness of the offered corporate opportunities. Keywords: Flexible employment, Substitute teaching, Precarity, Commodification, Pauperization, Eskişehir