ABSTRACT
In this chapter we show how the teachers perceived the use to which their working time was put. Although for some of the teachers (14:2:8) there was a connection between the use of their time and stress, we have deliberately treated these two issues separately. This is partly because they are conceptually distinct, since teachers who work long hours are not necessarily stressed. They may work long hours because they enjoy working. But it is also because the issues were empirically different for our teachers. As we illustrate later in this chapter, it was not the fact that they had to spend long hours working to which they objected in itself. Indeed, most teachers (20:2:2) pointed out that they had always worked long hours. The major difficulty for the teachers was the use to which their time was put, with substantial parts of their working week being spent on activities to which they objected or in which they would not have voluntarily engaged.
