This study explores teachers’ autonomy in relation to the implementation of a new Learning Management Systems (LMS). The purpose of this study is to study teachers’ work in relation to a new digital teaching tool to gain knowledge of how it can have impact on teacher autonomy. The research design was inspired by a mixed methods approach. The empirical data consists of a digital survey with 40 responding teachers, followed by six qualitative interviews with teachers. The research design later expanded by also including four qualitative interviews with school principles. The data was analyzed in light of Lortie’s (1969) conception of semi-professionals; Freidson’s (2001) theory of the logics of profession, market and bureaucracy; and Water’s (1989) theory of collegial structures. The result of this study indicates that the LMS has an impact on teacher’ autonomy by shifting focus from teaching for substantial knowledge to “teaching for the test”; and by giving parents and students a narrow insight into the teachers’ discretional work, which can challenge the discretion. However, the result also indicates that the teachers maintained autonomy by only using the LMS to a limited extent. This decision space, to choose whether or not use the tool, was understood as organized by the principals through collegial relations with the teachers.

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This thesis is devoted to the teaching profession with a focus on nursery school teaching. The theoretical part contains information about teaching as a profession, focusing directly on the prestige of nursery school teachers and describes the contemporary aspects of prestige. Finally, it is described in detail the development of the profession preschool teacher, as a source of ongoing professionalisation of teaching. The main objective of the research is to compare how the prestige of pre-primary teachers evaluated by teachers from other educational levels and preschool educators themselves. Furthermore, to determine how different the results of the investigation work of the author and poll by the Centre for Public Opinion Research (Centrum pro výzkum veřejného mínění - CVVM) at the Institute of Sociology of the prestige of the profession of 2013 and 2016. Design survey is mixed. The method is a questionnaire, structured interviews and document analysis. The results show the relative agreement with research by CVVM. Respondents rated significantly differently just 4 professions and teaching professions rated slightly higher than in the original survey. Comparison of the teaching profession, as evaluated by teachers, showed that each group of teachers (according to school grades) evaluated their...