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Josephine Lau; Katja Vähäsantanen; Kaija Collin – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
Teachers are frontline actors in actualising educational innovations. In some contexts, teachers' professional agency is undervalued. This study investigated teachers' agency and its related workplace affordances in Hong Kong, which features a centralised-decentralisation education governance system, and a hierarchical work culture. The study was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Autonomy, Cultural Context, Vertical Organization
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Hasrati, Mostafa – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2022
Drawing on qualitative data, this case study explores how the precarious employment status of college contract instructors in Canada pushes them to consider bypassing some policies and affects their well-being, both of which could negatively influence the quality of education. Since keeping abreast with internationalisation requires addressing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Faculty, Employment Level
Diliberti, Melissa Kay; Schwartz, Heather L.; Grant, David – RAND Corporation, 2021
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has added more stress to an already high-stress profession: American public school teacher. The authors of this report share the results of a new survey of nearly 1,000 former public school teachers and reveal how important stress has been--even more so than pay--to teachers' decisions to leave the…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Labor Turnover, Stress Variables, Teaching Conditions
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Bogaert, Inge; De Martelaer, Kristine; Deforche, Benedicte; Clarys, Peter; Zinzen, Evert – Health Education Journal, 2015
Objective: The primary aim of this study was to describe and analyse the physical activity and sedentary levels of secondary school teachers in Flanders. A secondary aim was to collect information regarding a possible worksite intervention of special relevance to secondary school teachers. Design: Mixed-methods quantitative and qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Activity Level, Life Style, Secondary School Teachers
Pollington, Mary – 1992
A study compared the working conditions of part-time English teachers at Brigham Young University (BYU) and Utah Valley Community College (UVCC). At BYU more than half of the advanced writing classes are taught by part-timers, who make up 27% of the English department, and women part-timers outnumber men four to one. At UVCC there are about as…
Descriptors: College English, Comparative Analysis, Educational Research, Employment Level
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Gursel, Musa; Sunbul, Ali Murat; Sari, Hakan – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2002
This study attempted to explore Turkish headteachers' and teachers' burnout and job satisfaction relating to work status, gender and years work-experiences. The purpose of this study is to find out whether there is difference between headteachers' and teachers' burnout and job satisfaction in terms of work status, gender and years…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Teacher Burnout, Measures (Individuals), Teaching Conditions