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Nina Emilsson – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2024
Within the specific cultural and historical context of Swedish adult education, this article employs autoethnography to explore teachers' complex experiences during the era of neoliberalism. Its aim is to illuminate teachers' multifaceted realities within this dynamic and shed light on the diverse challenges and struggles they encounter. Drawing…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Teachers
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Yanchuan Geng; Xiaoxue Zhu; Ashley Yoon Mooi Ng – Educational Gerontology, 2024
This paper investigated teacher wellbeing in a rapidly expanding educational context of Universities of the Third Age in China. Based on the analysis of 48 metaphors innovatively elicited from 27 teacher participants, important cognitive, affective and social aspects of teaching and learning that configure teacher wellbeing have been outlined. It…
Descriptors: Teacher Welfare, Foreign Countries, Figurative Language, Teaching (Occupation)
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Whitehead, Diane P. – Childhood Education, 2009
In recent years, much has been made of the increase in student absenteeism. However, an issue that has not received as much attention, but one that is equally critical to childhood education, is that of teacher absenteeism. It is important to note that schools are not only centers of learning, but also institutions that provide continuity for…
Descriptors: Teacher Burnout, Teacher Attendance, Teaching Conditions, Teacher Welfare