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Emotional Exhaustion in German Preschool Teachers: The Role of Personal, Structural, and Social Conditions at the Workplace
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Mareike Trauernicht; Yvonne Anders; Elisa Oppermann; Uta Klusmann – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2025
Research has demonstrated that preschool teachers are particularly prone to develop burnout symptoms, such as emotional exhaustion. However, which workplace conditions are particularly related to burnout symptoms in preschool teachers remains widely unknown. Hence, this study aims to disentangle personal characteristics (e.g. educational degree,…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Work Attitudes, Work Environment, Foreign Countries
"You Can Hold Two Things to Be True at the Same Time": Duality in ECE Teachers' Emotional Experiences during COVID-19
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Sorrells, Cassie; Madrid Akpovo, Samara – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2022
This study represents a qualitative exploration of the emotional experiences of early care and education (ECE) teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research questions consisted of the following: (1) "What were the emotional experiences of ECE teachers during COVID-19?" (2) "How do ECE teachers understand, contextualize, and/or…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, White Teachers, Females, COVID-19
To Stay or to Leave: Factors Shaping Early Childhood Teachers' Turnover and Retention Decisions
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Schaack, Diana D.; Donovan, Courtney V.; Adejumo, Tobiloba; Ortega, Mari – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2022
This qualitative study sought to understand whether there were difference in how early childhood education (ECE) teachers who stayed in or left their jobs interpreted their job demands and resources. It also sought to understand factors that shaped teachers' turnover and retention decisions. Twenty-six teachers who worked in subsidized ECE…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Labor Turnover, Influences
Child Care Teaching as Women's Work: Reflections on Experiences
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Kim, Miai; Reifel, Stuart – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2010
Child care teachers' experiences and their gendered understandings of their work were explored in this study. Two female child care teachers were interviewed individually and asked to describe their work as women's work. Analysis showed that teachers essentialized child care teaching, recognized the paradoxes of being a child care teacher,…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Work Environment, Females, Gender Issues
Motivation, Work Satisfaction, and Teacher Change among Early Childhood Teachers
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Wagner, Brigid Daly; French, Lucia – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2010
This study tests the explanatory power of Deci and Ryan's (1985) self-determination theory as a framework for describing how interactions between early childhood teachers and the systems within which their work is embedded influence motivation for professional growth and change in teaching practice. Fifty-four early childhood teachers and teacher…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Aides, Predictor Variables
Child Care Work Environments: The Relationship with Learning Environments
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Lower, Joanna K.; Cassidy, Deborah J. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2007
The study explores the relationship between child care program administration, organizational climate, and global quality. The recently developed Program Administration Scale (PAS; Talan & Bloom, 2004) was utilized in the study. Both program administration and organizational climate were found to be positively correlated with preschool…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Work Environment, Organizational Climate, Labor Force