Twenty-four young teachers from urban backgrounds, teaching in two rural Queensland secondary schools, were surveyed about their relationships with students, the community, and administrators; teaching conditions; their satisfaction with teaching, in general and in a rural community; and their career plans. Contains 35 references. (SV)

In this review symposium on Andy Hargreaves's book "Changing Teachers, Changing Times: Teachers' Work and Culture in the Postmodern Age" (1994), Strain questions Hargreaves's treatment of modernity, postmodernism, and postmodernity and his materialistic, functionalist view of history and social change. Wong applauds Hargreaves' analysis…

Documents greater teacher attrition in the United Kingdom than previously realized and demands a halt to this trend. Urges increasing teacher managers' awareness of factors diminishing job satisfaction, an important factor influencing decisions to leave the profession. Presents three job satisfaction models used in business with possible…

Increased pace of change and enhanced competition within British education, coupled with threatened or actual school mergers, have brought added pressures to the teaching profession. A study of 76 teachers from 5 Northern Ireland secondary schools that were threatened by merger, had merged, or had not merged revealed that those threatened by…

A phenomenological analysis of interviews with four beginning elementary school teachers examined their experiences of support in a new situation and the themes of support allowing growth choices; support through comparisons with others; and needs for reciprocity of support, appropriate levels of support, concreteness and specificity, and…

To restructure teaching by changing teacher roles, five working condition must be enhanced, including support for teaching, collegiality, influence, recognition and advancement, and time. Three policies claiming to facilitate these conditions (differentiated staff, site-based management, and schools with learning communities) are true…

Examined the relationship between social support, barriers, locus of control, and involvement of school health promotion team members in school health promotion activities. Subjects perceived greater support for implementing CPR/first aid, alcohol/drug programs, and speeches on health topics and lower support for healthy snacks, advisory groups,…

Reports survey findings from 371 Ontario secondary teachers on work centrality and job satisfaction and their relationships to each other and to occupational stress, teaching conditions, and teacher background variables. Compares results to those from Japan and the United States. (SV)

The teacher reform debate in Australia is informed by contradictory individualist and work perspectives and assumptions. The challenge for policy is harmonizing perspectives to develop a basis for the practical politics of educational reform. The individualist perspective complements corporate managerialism, whereas the work perspective raises…

Creating a school as a humane business involves hard work, hard thinking, and degree of risk-taking. All too often finances and inadequate resources are used as excuse for maintaining the status quo. Educators are advised to eliminate bells, PA systems, detention, study halls, tracking, and lock-step scheduling patterns and to institute…

Examines Scottish teachers' perceptions of indiscipline in 1990 and 1996. Survey results suggest that low-level misbehaviors remained the same but verbal abuse toward the teacher increased. Violence against teachers was rare. Findings are placed in the context of research on discipline, policy of social exclusion, and teacher reactions to…

The study discussed here involves the idea sources of a group of English-as-a-Second-Language teachers in an intensive English program in the western United States. Its conceptual context is teacher beliefs and cognition, a research area that was more active in mainstream education in previous decades and only recently is beginning to have an…

Interviewed staff in two Australian universities about sacrifices they had to make to do their jobs, using the greedy institution concept to describe the hold the universities had over their staff. Overall, there was a certain uniformity of response across sites, gender, and occupational status, which is the product of a masculinist discourse used…

Investigated why teachers taught the way they did, collecting data from Egyptian science teachers in the United Kingdom during an inservice course and in Egypt after the course. Teachers were frustrated in introducing even limited change. Their evaluations of which inservice experiences they considered most useful differed from changes they were…

Those who expect consultants to solve problems for schools operating under the traditional model of fragmentation and teacher isolation will be disappointed. The key to using consultants effectively is developing systematic processes that engage staff in the work of a professional learning community as they consider the ideas presented to them.…