In 2012, nearly 50% of elementary visual art teachers were itinerant. Itinerant visual art teachers face unique challenges such as traveling between multiple schools that may influence their teaching effectiveness. Despite these prominent challenges, little research has addressed the relationship between the loss of teacher efficacy from working…

The sources and nature of conflict/accord between the artist role and the three primary roles that the artist confronts in the university--teaching, research, and the faculty role--were investigated. For comparison purposes, faculty members in the humanities fields were interviewed in addition to the full-time faculty members who were also…