The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to identify how beginning teachers describe their experiences that influenced them to stay in the teaching profession in a large school district in Texas. This study used factors influencing teaching choice (FIT-choice) for the theoretical model. Five research questions guided data collection.…

Over fifty years of research investigating teacher burnout has resulted in a well-accepted model of burnout that involves three dimensions: exhaustion, depersonalization, and loss of accomplishment. Recently, a new cause of teacher attrition has been proposed called "demoralization," on the argument that demoralization is a distinct…

Our study explores the transcultural journeys of three doctoral students from South Korea and China, examining how our diverse experiences as teacher educators in the United States have shaped our teaching practices. Utilizing collaborative autoethnography grounded in transcultural and poststructural theoretical frameworks, we highlight the…

Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT} refers to a temporary shift in instructional delivery within the field of education, which emerged as a rapid response to the lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This article examines the factors influencing faculty satisfaction with teaching during this abrupt change from face-to-face to online classes. With a…

This study aims to explore differences across Greece, the UK, the USA, Malaysia, Romania, and Turkey in terms of their attitudes towards inclusive education and validate the three-model structure for attitudes towards inclusion across the above six countries. All special education teachers were administered the ATTAS-mm scale. They were employed…

Decades of research form an extensive body of knowledge on International Collaboration in Research (IRC). However, experiential perspectives of the operative core (the academics) in research collaboration, remained relatively uninvestigated. Besides, explorations on how academics in peripheral countries accomplish IRC are still very limited.…

This paper draws together academic and policy literature around the value of a culturally, linguistically and racially diverse (CLRD) teacher workforce in Australia. While Australia's population is becoming more diverse, the teaching population is significantly less so, with far fewer teachers born overseas and/or speaking a language other than…

This paper is about social class and the teaching profession. While class has long been a core focus in the Sociology of Education, little attention has been paid to how it is conceived and enacted in the context of the professions, including teaching. While research in the area is increasing, we know relatively little about "the daily class…

Purpose: Vocational teachers' professional work builds on both vocational and teaching competence, requiring vocational teachers to balance multiple identities in their professional practice. As a professional group coming to education from different vocational disciplines, vocational teachers also have various educational backgrounds, teaching…

Background/purpose. Co-teaching has emerged as an innovative practice in Higher Education that offers positive experiences for both students and professors. The current study focused on professors who were involved in co-teaching practices and aimed to explore the effects of these partnerships on their teacher self-efficacy (TSE).…

Teacher professional learning communities (PLCs) have received extensive research attention due to their important role in teacher professional development and classroom practices. However, research aiming to explain the underpinning mechanisms of how PLCs foster teacher instructional practices is limited. Against this backdrop, this study…

Assessing teacher-student interactions in the classroom is critical, but most research has relied on short observation periods due to the infeasibility of longer sessions. Our study assessed and quantified the emotional tone (i.e., teacher sentiment) of classroom teachers' language patterns throughout the school day using transcriptions of 149…

Assessing teacher-student interactions in the classroom is critical, but most research has relied on short observation periods due to the infeasibility of longer sessions. Our U.S. study assessed and quantified the emotional tone (i.e., teacher sentiment) of classroom teachers' language patterns throughout the school day using transcriptions of…

A substantial body of research has shown that the use of strategic human resource management (SHRM) can influence employees' job resources thereby facilitating well-being. However, little evidence exists on the link between SHRM and teachers' perception of job demands and job resources in the school. Based on semi-structured interviews with school…

Purpose: The proliferation of entrepreneurship education in higher education has heightened the demand for individuals to teach this subject across diverse academic disciplines. Moreover, while many entrepreneurship educators follow a serendipitous entry into the field, a discourse about how such diverse cohorts of entrepreneurship educators…