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Can Older Teachers Better Handle Crises? Overload Feelings and Work Seepage into the Private Space during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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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
'Stretched Very Thin': The Impact of COVID-19 on Teachers' Work Lives and Well-Being
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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
Hard Work/Workload: Discursive Constructions of Teacher Work in Policy and Practice
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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
Teacher Burnout: Relations between Dimensions of Burnout, Perceived School Context, Job Satisfaction and Motivation for Teaching. A Longitudinal Study
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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)
Teacher Attrition in the USA: The Relational Elements in a Utah Case Study
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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
Teachers' Work in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Schools
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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