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Stevens, Andrew – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2018
Since the 1980s, research on employment conditions in post-secondary institutions has focused on the growth of contingent academic workers, or what the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) has labelled "non-full- time instructors" (Field, Jones, Stephenson, & Khoyetsyan, 2014). Very little attention, however, has been…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Salaries, Job Security, Family Work Relationship
British Columbia Teachers' Federation, 2011
This brief presents the views of the members of the British Columbia Teachers' Federation on the provincial government's budget to the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services. It is a crucial time for public education in British Columbia and they take very seriously the chance to provide information and their perspective on…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Foreign Countries, Public Education, Research Reports
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Heydon, Rachel; Stooke, Rosamund – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2012
This paper reports on a case study of teachers' expressions of their literacy-related professional development needs in a First Nations school located in Ontario, Canada. The paper construes the work of the teachers as "border work" and argues that their literacy teaching work was complex and tied to an ongoing legacy of colonialism.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Security, Educational Philosophy, Canada Natives
Bulcock, Jeffrey W.; And Others – 1973
This statistical survey of women teachers in Newfoundland and Labrador was financed by the Faculty of Education at Memorial University and was carried out under the auspices of the Department of Education. A 17 page questionnaire was mailed to a provincial sample of women teachers who were teaching during the 1971-72 school year. It was designed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction, Questionnaires, Statistical Analysis
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Knoop, Robert – Canadian Administrator, 1981
A survey of 311 elementary teachers in three Ontario (Canada) school districts indicates that teachers' perceptions of school goal achievement (in terms of students' skills, knowledge, and individual development) are positively related to satisfaction with co-workers, supervision, and the job itself, but not with pay or promotion opportunities.…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Interprofessional Relationship
Radecki, Henry; Evans, Susan – 1982
Focusing on the 1980 strike of public secondary school teachers in Sudbury, Ontario, this study examined attitudes of those involved; ascertained feelings toward the school system that may have emerged since the strike; and examined events, influences, and developments leading to the strike and prolonging the strike. The field study represented…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board of Education Role, Collective Bargaining, Economic Factors