Little is known about the working conditions for Swedish special educators who teach students with an intellectual disability. Consequently, the overall aim of this research is to describe special educators' job satisfaction, self-efficacy, and work absenteeism in Swedish special needs comprehensive schools (Grundsärskolan). We surveyed 148…

Current changes in social structures and political-economic systems directly affect teachers' job performance. Among others, these changes include changes in communication and information technologies, the scientific revolution, changes in the structure of populations, the revolution of social relations, economic and political transformations, and…

Faculty dissatisfaction with diminishing levels of student engagement in lifestyle medicine sessions prompted this exploratory project that compared differences in students' substantive engagement in medical preclinical and clinical level lifestyle medicine sessions. The preclinical and clinical level sessions had the same learning objectives and…

Introduction: Given today's academic and professional demands, we must promote knowing how to "be," that is, a feeling of competence and autonomy. A classroom environment where technologies are used for learning and knowledge can be supportive of this purpose. The objective of the present investigation, therefore, was to analyze…

The purpose of this study was to compare the psychological wellbeing of public and private university teachers in Pakistan. Psychological wellbeing is generally conceptualized as an interaction of positive effects such as happiness and optimal functioning of people in social and individual areas of life. Using multistage sampling technique, 437…

Grounded in the Self-Determination Theory, this study examines the relations between teacher educators' experienced work pressure and opportunities for professional growth, their work related basic needs satisfaction (i.e. autonomy, competence and relatedness) and their researcherly disposition (i.e. being a smart consumer of research, being able…

Evidence shows flipped learning increases academic performance and student satisfaction. Yet, often practitioners flip instruction but keep traditional curricula and assessment. Assessment in higher education is often via written exams. But these provide limited feedback and do not ask students to put knowledge into practice. This does not support…

This paper is focused on the issue of new Chinese teachers' attrition and some resolutions. Chinese novice teachers' leaving results from professional and personal factors, among which the excessive workloads caused by the current curriculum reform and new teachers' lack of self-efficacy, together with unrealistic career expectations, are the…

Purpose: The present study aims to investigate the relationships between the two distinct faces of narcissism (admiration and rivalry), the two faces of self-perception (self-esteem and self-compassion) and the two faces of one's evaluation of life (life satisfaction and harmony in life). Research Methods:The sample of this study consists of…

The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between student cynicism and students' life satisfaction. This study is in correlational survey model. The sample of the study consists of 554 Turkish high school students, who were selected by simple random sampling method. Findings show that female students have more cynical attitudes…

Decreasing students' satisfaction at higher secondary education context has drawn attention to the concept of student engagement in their classroom. Students' low level engagement with academic activities is considered the main reason for dissatisfaction that sometimes lead to drop out of the school. Blended learning intervention strategy that…

In this research, it is aimed to determine the level that the organizational cultures of the employees working in sport facilities are explained by their job satisfaction and demographic characteristics. 162 employees participated in the research carried out in the relational screening model. The data of the study was collected through…

Flipped classrooms are an instructional strategy that is becoming popular in educational contexts, particularly higher education. The principle of Flipped Classroom is that events that have traditionally taken place inside the classroom now take place outside the classroom and vice versa. Various studies have reported increased student performance…

The current research is based on the phenomenological-qualitative paradigm. The goal was to examine the significant experiences, attitudes, and pedagogical practices of 17 Israeli student teachers in the science-teaching track regarding the use of project-based learning (PBL) as a pedagogical method, which they implemented in elementary schools…

If education could be considered the profession of the utilization of knowledge, then this would be difficult to pass on, especially when we talk about human sciences. In such disciplines, it is critical to develop students' ability to reflect philosophical contemplation, theories, and different themes on the real life. Consequently, education in…