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Song, Guangwen; Wei, Shuhua – Frontiers of Education in China, 2007
In order to evaluate the present state of teachers' professional identity (TPI), 177 teachers in primary and secondary schools in Zibo of Shandong Province of China were surveyed by a questionnaire designed by the authors. The results reveals: (1) high professional identity for the overall level of teachers; (2) significant difference in genders…
Descriptors: Teaching Conditions, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Lebans, Tanya; Radigan, Margie – Rural Educator, 2007
As part of a Canadian International Development Agency funded project working with rural teachers in central China, recent graduates Lebans and Radigan spent a month teaching in Chinese schools. The primary purpose of the project is to work with members of the Sichuan Provincial Teacher Training Centre and rural teachers from Wenchuan County…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Faculty Development
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Song, Zhongying – Frontiers of Education in China, 2008
This study surveyed the current situation of teacher burnout in a sample of 400 teachers from urban junior high school in Shangqiu of Henan Province with scales, and examined the relationship between dimensions of teacher burnout and sources and types of social support they received. The results show that Shangqiu urban junior high school…
Descriptors: Fatigue (Biology), Teacher Burnout, Secondary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Pei, Wang; Guoli, Zhang – Chinese Education and Society, 2007
Based on the measuring instruments used by scholars in China and abroad, we devised a questionnaire to study occupational stress of 500 secondary and elementary school teachers in Tacheng municipality in Xinjiang and examined its negative effects on teachers. They found that the occupational stress of secondary and elementary school teachers are…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Gender Differences
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Zhongshan, Zhang – Chinese Education and Society, 2007
Teacher job satisfaction, as an important index of school efficacy, has drawn the attention of education administrators and researchers. In recent years, Chen Yunying and Sun Shaobang (1994), Feng Bolin (1996), and Chen Weiqi (1998) have conducted studies of job satisfaction among secondary and elementary school teachers in such places as Beijing,…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes
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Fuming, Xu; Jiliang, Shen – Chinese Education and Society, 2007
Job satisfaction is an important topic in teacher education research. Exploring the issue of teacher job satisfaction helps us gain a deeper understanding of teachers' mental state, such as their occupational attitudes, zeal for teaching, and work enthusiasm, which affects the quality of teaching and education. From an examination of teachers' job…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Administrators
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Hongying, Song – Chinese Education and Society, 2007
An understanding of teachers' job satisfaction is needed to understand teachers' work attitude and work behavior and to provide inputs for effective school administration. A summary of the existing works in China on teachers' overall and different dimensions of job satisfaction and the effects of individual factors as a reference for researchers…
Descriptors: Work Attitudes, Job Satisfaction, School Administration, Foreign Countries
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Li, Zhifeng; Jiang, Xiulan; Li, Hongbo – Frontiers of Education in China, 2007
Part-time faculty has become an important labor force in Chinese colleges and universities. The number of them has risen rapidly and its structure varies in different types of higher education institutes (HEIs), which results from integration of the social motivation and the inner motivation of schools' reform. From the institutional point of…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Higher Education, Motivation, Labor Force
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Wong, Jocelyn L. N. – Educational Studies, 2006
Many researchers have identified a process they call "deskilling", which they use to describe the daily experience of teachers who have been gradually losing control of their own labour within "low-trust" workplaces. Conversely, other scholars have found that under similar conditions, some teachers have their own ways of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Administrative Organization, Teacher Attitudes
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Weiqi, Chen – Chinese Education and Society, 2007
This study used the results of a questionnaire survey of 230 secondary school teachers to analyze the factors constituting job satisfaction and its effects on teacher attrition and work enthusiasm. The results show that (a) the structure of secondary school teacher job satisfaction is made up of ten components and is consistent with the model put…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Teacher Persistence, Work Environment, Secondary School Teachers
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Raxxano, Elaine – English Journal, 1999
Presents an essay written soon after the author's return to the United States after teaching at a University in China at the time of the Tiananmen Square tragedy. Explores issues of teaching overseas and the reality of Americans being caught in the midst of political turmoil. Remembers sacrifices made by Chinese students and teachers to test the…
Descriptors: Activism, Cultural Awareness, Democracy, Foreign Countries
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Zhang, Li-fang – Educational Psychology, 2007
The primary aim of this research is to investigate the predictive power of occupational stress for teaching style among university faculty members. A sample of 144 faculty members from a large university in the People's Republic of China rated themselves on three ability scales and responded to the Thinking Styles in Teaching Inventory and to four…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Teaching Styles, Teacher Characteristics, Coping
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Bolin, Feng – Chinese Education and Society, 2007
Research on job satisfaction, an extremely important topic in organizational administration and social psychology, has a history of nearly sixty years, beginning with the publication of Hoppock's (1935) classic work. The study of organization administration and behavioral sciences started fairly late on the Chinese mainland. There are few studies…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Teaching (Occupation), Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes
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Kexian, Ji; Hao, Tang – Chinese Education and Society, 2006
On September 10, 2006, Teachers' Day was marked for the twentieth time in China. On this day, this journal's reporters congratulated teachers and at the same time conducted a number of investigations among teachers nationwide over the Internet, to find out what issues are of the biggest concern to them. The seventy-plus issues listed in this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Salaries
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Romanowski, Michael H. – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2006
As China charges forward into modernity, the nation is confronted with major economic and social changes. China's one-child policy and economic growth, for example, have altered the values and attitudes of parents, thereby creating new challenges for Chinese teachers. In addition, nontraditional ways of thinking in China's youth have led to a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Progress, Developing Nations, Social Change
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