The study examines the teachers' sense of overload and breaching the boundaries protecting their personal time during the COVID-19 crisis. The article explains the work-life conflict that teachers from all educational settings have encountered and the blurring of boundaries experienced as a result of ICT leakage into their personal space. Using a…

Professional occupations take time and dedication. Careers are chosen, but some are callings. Teaching requires a calling to survive the many levels of expectations and rigor needed to reach the youth of today. Education is a constant juggling act of professional responsibility and personal balance. The lines of professional and personal lives…

This study aims to explore the practices of transformational leadership and its influence on teachers' job satisfaction in Addis Ababa government secondary schools. Narrative research design was employed to achieve the objective of the study. Thirty-nine school principals were selected using a purposive sampling technique. Thematic analysis was…

Purpose: The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of faculty members regarding perceived empathy from administrators and faculties' job satisfaction in Southern California community colleges. Methodology: A qualitative phenomenological design was used to explore how the perception of empathy from…

Despite the extensive coverage in the literature, limited attention has been paid to the investigation of technostress among academicians who work under special circumstances, such as occupation, and might have different psychological states due to those conditions. To fill this gap, this study examined the level and factorial structure of…

This paper considers the state of contingent laborers, Ph.D. holders, lovers of robust scholarship, and hopeful academics who toil away in the neoliberal university in the search for the academic good life. The author argues that the academic good life is a fantasy and agrees that the fantasy is cruel, i.e. not attainable or livable, but does…

Working conditions have been shown to have a significant influence on teachers' retention decisions. Despite disparities between rates of retention for Teachers of Color (TOC) and their White peers, extant research related to links between working conditions and retention tends to treat teachers as a monolithic group. The goal of this study was to…

Studies show that the success of organizations typically depends on the extent to which leaders promote their employees' job satisfaction and commitment (Kouzes & Posner, 2007). As a result, employees' job satisfaction has received significant attention from business leaders and researchers (Belias & Kouestelios, 2014; Cakmak et al., 2015;…

The epistemological underpinning of Adventure Sports Coaches' (ASCs) coaching and leadership practice is a growing area of research. The epistemological stance that links to caving instructors, winter mountaineering instructors and rock-climbing instructors practice however has not been considered. Consequently, this paper sought to explore the…

The problem addressed in this study was decline in mental well-being for teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this quantitative correlational non-experimental study was to examine the relationship of classroom changes, increased job demands, and administrative leadership practices to the mental health issues of K-8 teachers…

The problem addressed by this study is the high attrition rate of veteran public secondary teachers due to a multitude of challenges and changes faced throughout their tenure in an education career. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of veteran public secondary teachers to…

Workplace bullying in the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector is a pervasive and significant issue in Australia and globally. Workplace bullying can negatively impact early childhood professionals' mental health, contributing to staff turnover and attrition. Given the current, and predicted, future shortages of ECEC staff, it is…

Sessional staff are commonly excluded from opportunities which can enhance their professional development, despite being responsible for the majority of university teaching. For educators teaching in widening participation or enabling programs, this can create additional separation or feelings of being 'illegitimate'. This article interrupts such…

Research has shown that schools across the Nation are continuing to face the challenge of a special education teacher shortage. The purpose of this qualitative case study is to explore how the systemic factors of Bronfenbrenner's (1979) Ecological Systems Theory explain selected special educator's decisions to stay in the profession in a…

The investigation of the current status of occupational stress and psychological problems among special post-teachers in Zunyi City is crucial. This study provides insights into improving their working environment and promoting their well-being. This study aimed to 1) assess the level of occupational stress among teachers in special post teachers…