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Tamir, Emanuel; Etgar, Ran – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2023
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experienced Teachers, Coping, Faculty Workload
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Louise Gwenneth Phillips; Melissa Cain; Jenny Ritchie; Chris Campbell; Susan Davis; Cynthia Brock; Geraldine Burke; Kathryn Coleman; Esther Joosa – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic jolted teachers to the front line of complex, under resourced negotiation of quality distance learning, whilst also being key communicators with students and families about how to be COVID safe. Media reports debated preschool and school closures and child safety, but scarcely considered teachers. Motivated by the silencing…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Teacher Attitudes, School Closing
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Sharon McDonough; Narelle Lemon – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2024
The spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) across the globe has had a significant impact on teachers and teaching with countries around the world closing schools in an effort to slow the spread of the virus. Such a mass cessation of traditional face-to-face teaching has required schools and teachers to move rapidly to remote and, primarily, online…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Teaching Conditions, Well Being
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Spicksley, Kathryn – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2022
This paper explores contradictory constructions of teacher work across policy discourse and professional practice. It draws from a corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of 363 political speeches published on England's Department for Education website between 2010 and 2018, and qualitative interviews with two executive leaders working in…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Political Attitudes, Speeches, Foreign Countries
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Lawrence, David F.; Loi, Natasha M.; Gudex, Boyd W. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2019
This cross-sectional study sought to investigate teachers' experiences of work intensification and wellbeing. Using the Job Demands-Resources model as a framework, this study investigated the relationship between work intensification, satisfaction with workload, perceived organisational support, and burnout. An Australian sample of 215 high school…
Descriptors: Correlation, Teacher Burnout, Well Being, Faculty Workload
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Skaalvik, Einar M.; Skaalvik, Sidsel – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2020
The purpose of this longitudinal study was to analyse relations between teachers' perceptions of job demands and job resources in the school environment and dimensions of burnout, depressed mood, job satisfaction and motivation to leave the teaching profession (quit). The participants were 262 Norwegian high school teachers. The teachers'…
Descriptors: Teacher Burnout, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Workload, Depression (Psychology)
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Newberry, Melissa; Allsop, Yvonne – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2017
Previous work on teacher attrition in the US has indicated that those who stay in the profession and those who leave are not separate homogenous groups. In this study, the lived experience of former teachers is examined to determine the issues that distinguish leavers from stayers. The sample is from the state of Utah, a state with one of the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Persistence, Collegiality
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Björk, Lisa; Stengård, Johanna; Söderberg, Mia; Andersson, Eva; Wastensson, Gunilla – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2019
As many other countries around the world, Sweden is currently facing an urgent need for new teachers. Creating sound work environments that can retain beginning teachers in the profession--as well as attract new ones--is one way to address the problem. In order to accomplish this task, research must be able to reflect the complex nature of work…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Job Satisfaction, Self Efficacy, Teacher Persistence
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Ben Sasson, Dvora; Somech, Anit – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2015
To fill the gap in theoretical and empirical knowledge on workplace aggression by teachers working in teams, this study explored its components, its targets, and its contextual determinants. Data were collected through three observations at different schools and at different times on 29 math, homeroom, language, and science studies teams.…
Descriptors: Aggression, Teacher Behavior, Teamwork, Work Environment
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Jonasson, Charlotte; Mäkitalo, Åsa; Nielsen, Klaus – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2015
In recent years, many countries within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development have formulated educational policies aimed at providing better education to more students. However, this may be perceived as constituting dilemmatic spaces, where teachers must make efforts to reconcile coexisting political demands in their everyday…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, School Holding Power, Decision Making
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Gu, Qing – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2014
At a time when the contemporary landscape of teaching is populated with successive and persisting government policy reforms that have increased teachers' external accountabilities, work complexity, and emotional workload, understanding why and how many teachers are able to sustain their capacity to be resilient and continue to work for improvement…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Resilience (Psychology), Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers
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Miller, Jennifer – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2011
Teachers in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms work in highly charged contexts where policy, curriculum, student backgrounds, equity issues and pedagogical expertise provide both resources and constraints. Often, these classrooms are in underachieving schools in low socio-economic areas. This study investigated one school in…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Student Diversity, Foreign Countries, Conflict