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Haukås, Åsta; Mercer, Sarah; Svalberg, Agneta M.-L. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2022
Teaching a language subject in school is often referred to as being different and unique compared to teaching a non-language subject. However, the few existing studies examining this claim have mainly investigated the viewpoints of teachers who only teach one language, thus failing to achieve a comparison based on teachers' actual lived…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Experience, Language Teachers
Anderson, Sarah K.; Terras, Katherine L. – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2015
This research examines teacher perspectives' of educational challenges in Norway. Norway is one of the most well-resourced, prosperous, social welfare states in the world, yet the OECD (2011) recognized students' weak basic skills and insufficient teacher ability in content and pedagogy, along with engagement and imbalanced resources as points for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Problems, Teaching Load
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Höhle, Ester – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
Academic career paths in Europe are heterogeneous, and the chances for early career researchers to become a permanent member of the academic profession differ from country to country. In some countries, the employment prospects are very insecure. It is asked whether contract conditions at universities influence the chance of taking over a mature…
Descriptors: Agenda Setting, Comparative Analysis, Influences, Contracts
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Skaalvik, Einar M.; Skaalvik, Sidsel – International Education Studies, 2015
This study explored job satisfaction, work-related stress, consequences of stress, and coping strategies among Norwegian teachers. The study is based on qualitative interviews with 30 working teachers and four retired teachers. The respondents reported high job satisfaction but also severe stress and exhaustion. Teachers of different ages or at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction, Teaching (Occupation), Coping
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Kwiek, Marek – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
This paper focuses on a generational change taking place in the Polish academic profession: a change in behaviors and attitudes between two groups of academics. One was socialized to academia under the communist regime (1945-1989) and the other entered the profession in the post-1989 transition period. Academics of all age groups are beginning to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Productivity, Teacher Attitudes, Social Systems
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Steen-Olsen, Tove; Eikseth, Astrid Grude – European Educational Research Journal, 2010
This article focuses on teachers' repeated complaints of lack of time. The theme is explored within data material collected in a research and development project in a Norwegian primary school (2006-09), including observations from development work together with a teacher team, and interviews with their principal, a representative of the teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Time, Professional Autonomy
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Mykletun, Reidar J. – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1984
A study of 912 Norwegian comprehensive school teachers, using a 74-item job stress rating scale to identify stressors in teachers' work and the General Health Questionnaire as an index of quality of life, identified nine stress factors, including work overload, pupils' misbehavior, change, organizational climate/staff relations. (MH)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Discriminant Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Interpersonal Relationship