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Rebecca J. Collie – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2024
This study involved examining the psychometric properties of the Tripartite Occupational Well-Being Scale (TOWBS) among a sample of 502 Australian teachers. The TOWBS (12 items) comprises three factors of subjective vitality, behavioral engagement, and professional growth. The TOWBS -- Short (3 items) assesses a broad factor of occupational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Job Satisfaction
Katherine H. Canobi; Patricia Eadie; Lisa Murray; Penny Levickis; Jane Page; Laura McFarland – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: To explore distinct professional-wellbeing subgroups and variations in turnover intentions, we examined the factor structure of the Early Childhood Professional Wellbeing Questionnaire (McMullen et al., 2020), which was completed online by 368 Australian early childhood educators. Based on educators' scores on the Belonging and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Teacher Welfare, Faculty Mobility
Andrew Sawatske; Carl Leonard; Jess Harris; Kerry Dally – Australasian Journal of Special and Inclusive Education, 2024
Extant studies of special education teacher wellbeing often focus on negative aspects, such as stress, burnout and the consequent attrition from teaching, the latter occurring with increasing frequency in the field of special education. In this article, the authors use the OECD teacher wellbeing framework to conceptualise special education teacher…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Teacher Welfare, Individual Characteristics, Foreign Countries
Rebecca J. Collie – Learning Professional, 2024
Many countries around the world are facing issues related to low levels of teacher wellbeing. In Australia, for example, there is a severe teacher shortage, resulting in many understaffed schools. Although this shortage is due to a confluence of factors, part of the cause stems from the fact that the support provided to teachers in recent years…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Welfare, Academic Achievement, Teacher Shortage
Christina Donovan; Hannes Hautz – Education & Training, 2024
Purpose: This paper seeks to illustrate how interventionist education reforms shape dis/trust-building processes and their impact on teacher professionalism in vocational education and training (VET) across national contexts. Using trust as the object of analysis, we discuss the affective mechanisms of becoming a professional in a standards-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Trust (Psychology)
Karen Thorpe; Narayan Panthi; Sandra Houen; Marcus Horwood; Sally Staton – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
In response to a workforce crisis, Australia's early childhood education and care workforce strategy for the next decade, "Shaping our Future," was released in September 2021. This strategy was developed through a three-stage, 'top-down' process in which open consultation on pre-defined strategies was the final stage. Analysing data from…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Labor Economics, Foreign Countries, Data Analysis
Madeleine Erskine; Catherine Ferguson; Kay Ayre – Issues in Educational Research, 2023
Teacher directed violence (TDV) is characterised as damaging physical or verbal aggression directed towards teachers by students, parents, or colleagues. In this article the researchers explore the experiences of three secondary teachers in Western Australia who have experienced TDV. Given the limited sample size, this qualitative study employs an…
Descriptors: Teaching Conditions, Educational Environment, Teacher Persistence, School Violence
Kim A. Johnston; Anne B. Lane – Student Success, 2023
Generalised moves to online and more flexible delivery modes of teaching have challenged the perceptions and expectations of university educators worldwide. Congruence around educator role expectations, held by both the educator and their students, therefore is central to educator wellbeing, and by default, student success in a changing university…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Teacher Welfare, Teacher Role, Expectation
Christine Morley – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
Within the neoliberal university, scholarship, education, students, academic staff, and practices are subordinated to managerial imperatives. University educators are denigrated and displaced by colonising neoliberal practices that systemically invalidate and invisibilise academic work. The present article provides an example of this by critically…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Higher Education, Personal Narratives, Educational Change
Samuel Cunningham; Abby Cathcart; Tina Graham – Student Success, 2023
Student Evaluation of Teaching surveys (SETs) are used at universities to inform teaching practice and subject design. However, there is increasing concern about the impact of allegations, abuse, and discrimination in survey open text components. Here we discuss the implementation of an automated screening mechanism using a combination of…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Welfare, Student Welfare, Student Surveys
Jane Hall-Dadson; Sharon Fraser – Teaching Science, 2023
Teaching and learning of integrated Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is a rapidly growing field of research with implications for both teachers and students. This qualitative research paper explores the lived experiences of STEM teachers in order to generate a model of engaging STEM tasks. Surveys and interviews with primary…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Science
Jessica Ciuciu – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2024
Leadership is a relational practice that influences early childhood teachers' (ECTs) capability for agency. Agency contributes to the job satisfaction, wellbeing, and retention of ECTs-which are of pressing importance in a climate of global early childhood workforce sustainability challenges. Empirical insights presented in this paper explore the…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Teacher Administrator Relationship, Early Childhood Education, Administrators
Anne Southall – British Journal of Special Education, 2024
Research documenting the effects of trauma in early childhood describes the profound and long-term consequences of child abuse and neglect on the developing brain and the subsequent deficits in critical cognitive and social development. While educators have increasingly endeavoured to understand this impact and become more 'trauma-informed' in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Trauma Informed Approach, Barriers, Mild Intellectual Disability
Sandie Wong; Rebecca Bull; Tamara Cumming; Laura McFarland – Cogent Education, 2024
Early childhood educators' work, especially with children and families experiencing vulnerability, is complex, highly skilled, and can place significant psychological burdens on educators. This may adversely affect educators' well-being and contribute to the high levels of attrition seen globally. This article reports on an evaluation of a…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Clinical Supervision (of Teachers), Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Welfare