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Contextual Hoops and Hurdles: Workplace Conditions in Secondary Physical Education

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1994

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Contextual factors in the workplace can either enhance or inhibit teachers' ability to do their job. Oakes (1989) emphasized the importance of contextual factors in the workplace, stating, because classroom take place within a particular school, the characteristics of the school affect the nature of those interactions (p. 183). Goodlad, Soder, and Sirotnik (1990) summarized the impact of contextual factors in the following statements: