Enhancing teachers' work engagement requires systematic exploration of its contributors. Job insecurity has been considered a significant factor; however, other mediators and moderators may affect the relationship between job insecurity and work engagement. The present study tested a model of work engagement involving job insecurity as a…

Turnover among teachers has become an escalating issue globally, including in Pakistan, where a severe shortage of qualified teachers characterizes a struggling educational system. To counter the shortage, the government hired a large pool of qualified teachers for schools through a merit-based recruitment drive, but the newly recruited teachers…

We estimate the effects of Race to the Top (RTTT) on teacher qualifications, work environments, and job attitudes. Drawing on the Schools and Staffing Survey and the National Teacher and Principal Survey, we create a nationally representative data set of public school teachers from 1988 to 2018. We adopt an event study difference-in-differences…

Educator well-being and motivation have become popular topics in educational research, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic. Well-being and motivation are often derived from positive interactions with students and colleagues as well as feelings of affirmation in the classroom and workplace. While a supportive workplace environment can…

This paper argues that The National Coordination of Forcibly Contracted Teachers (NCFCT) [Arabic characters omitted] is a social justice movement that goes beyond the demands for better employment benefits and educational justice through schools that communities deserve to resisting philosophies that make use of their 'relegated' status as an…

EFL teacher burnout poses serious risks to well-being, job satisfaction, and instructional quality. This mixed methods study investigated how emotional intelligence and teacher self-concept relate to burnout, and whether self-efficacy mediates these relationships. Quantitative data from 319 public and private school EFL teachers were analyzed…