U.S. schools, including those in rural America, have struggled with a shortage of world language teachers for decades. Using Bandura's framework of self-efficacy teaching languages, the researchers conducted a study using the same methods as an earlier study of rural world language teacher attrition in Georgia. Contrary to those findings, results…

This study examines the relationship between teacher agency, autonomy, and teacher attrition and shortage challenges in U.S. K-12 education. Utilizing a quantitative approach, a survey was carried out to 200 teachers in Iowa, achieving a 52% response rate. Findings indicate a positive correlation between teacher empowerment and reduced attrition…

Career change teachers (CCTs) are heralded in international education policies as key to addressing teacher shortages and increasing quality and diversity in the profession. Using a qualitative approach inspired by Ball's discursive facet of policy enactment, interview responses from 23 Australian teacher educators were examined. The aim was to…

The high turnover rates of primary and secondary school teachers have become a serious problem in many countries, including China. To date, studies on the relationship between harmonious passion and turnover intention amongst primary and secondary school teachers remain scarce. Based on the conservation of resources theory, this study explored the…

This paper presents a synthesis of research literature concerned with teachers' and school leaders' experiences of workload and work intensification. Forty papers met the inclusion criteria for the research synthesis. From the analysis, we drew out both definitional and experiential accounts. Firstly, while we mostly found a conflation of the…

Purpose: Scholars have been sounding the alarm of novice teacher turnover crises for decades. South Africa is soon to be facing an educational catastrophe because of a shortage of experienced teachers. Globally and in South Africa, novice teacher attrition is high, and teachers entering the classroom often described feeling isolated and…

Early childhood (EC) teacher turnover is a chronic issue for the field that affects children, teachers, and programs; yet some teachers choose to remain in the profession. We interviewed EC teachers with the goal of identifying salient motivators and challenges to teaching in their EC workplace and the field generally. Teachers reported parts of…

This study explores how mobile and immobile academics enact research collaborations in Centres of Excellence (CoEs) in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). Modelled on Big Sciences and underpinned by human capital assumptions, CoEs aim to foster both local and international collaborations, driven by academic mobilities. Based on critical…

Within the framework of the higher education internationalisation agenda, academic mobility has become a prevailing policy pillar in most universities, engaging both students and teaching staff. A growing body of literature investigates students' experiences as the outcome of various mobility programmes. However, the encounters of teaching staff…

Recently, there has been a massive trend of Chinese international PhD graduates returning to China's research-intensive universities that are undergoing systemic reforms and aspire to flourish in the global higher education field. Taking into account this changing academic environment and field-specific mobility patterns, the study examines the…

The main purpose of this empirical study was to investigate the predictive effect of school leaders' destructive leadership behavior on teachers' turnover intention. A mixed approach with embedded research design was employed. Multi-stage stratified sampling was applied to select 748 teacher respondents. Data were collected using adapted…

World Language (WL) education is facing a teacher supply crisis affecting the quality and stability of programs in K-12 schools. The extant literature on teacher attrition draws attention to the challenges of early career teachers with implications for how teacher preparation and induction programs might increase retention in schools. This survey…

The purpose of this study is to look at leadership styles that affect teacher retention. This literature review looks at empirical and nonempirical studies on effective leadership styles, communication, and teachers' support and how that correlates with teacher retention. This qualitative study looks at how teacher retention is affected by…

This study is aimed to determine the opinions of teachers and school administrators working in public schools in Türkiye regarding the quiet quitting behavior they observe in teachers. The phenomenological approach was used in the research conducted with the qualitative research method. There are 33 teachers and 14 school administrators in the…

Educator labor markets vary considerably across the country and can change quickly during recessions. We use data from the Quality Workforce Indicators (QWI) on educators in Elementary and Secondary Schools from 2000-01 to 2022-23. We demonstrate how to transform the quarter-level data in the QWI to construct valid educator labor market measures.…