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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"lives of teachers"”.
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Listen to the Teacher: The Voice of Excellence. A Biographical Study of Excellence in Teaching
… through this biographical study, these six teachers found the reflective process of this project to be both powerful and cathartic. From this qualitative research project of exceptional teachers and their stories, this study sought to give a view into the lives of teachers that hopefully …
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Teachers at Work: Factors Influencing Satisfaction, Retention and the Professional Well-Being of Elementary and Secondary Educators
<p>The purpose of this study has been to explore the question of how factors in the work lives of teachers influence their experience of workplace satisfaction, and how satisfaction influences retention in the teaching profession. This study had three specific goals: (1) to examine whether five …
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Time and teachers : an empirical and conceptual study of the competition for the available time in the classroom practice of teachers working in the Western Cape, 1989-1990
This study examines the role of time in the working lives of teachers in the Western Cape in the years 1989 and 1990. The study is based upon interviews with twelve teachers, all of whom were currently teaching or who had been teaching in the recent past. The interviews explored the attitudes and …
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The Inner Game of Teaching: What is it and How can It Make Us Better Teachers
<p>The inner lives of teachers was researched and studied. Three key questions were the focus: 1) What is a mental peak performance state in teaching? 2) What is the value of achieving this state? 3) How can teachers attain peak performance states? Peak performance states are described as “a higher …
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Life histories of Muslim teachers in Birmingham primary schools
The life histories of Muslim teachers in Birmingham schools have been collected in this research. This interpretive research involved a systematic gathering and analysis of data using semi-structured in-depth interviews. Thirteen primary school teachers voluntarily participated for this to happen. …
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The Embodied Classroom: Exploring the Effects of Yoga on Teachers' Well-being and Pedagogy
This dissertation explores the effects of yoga on teachers’ well-being and pedagogy, guided by the central research question: What are the effects of yoga on a teacher’s well-being and pedagogy? In response to widespread discourses of teacher burnout, this research foregrounds inner awareness as …
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An investigation into the impact of the marketization of further education on individual teacher identities using visual images, metaphors and narrative to analyse and evaluate the key themes and discourses
… concept in helping to understand the variety of inter-connected influences that impact on the professional lives of teachers in further education (FE). Ti is under researched within the FE sector and is used in this study to analyse the impact of the marketization of FE (post-incorporation) on …
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Engaging with change in a post-Bologna teaching university in the Netherlands
… and economic rationalism are impacting on teachers. Changes in the student population, new educational methods derived from shifting perspectives on the role of knowledge and re-structuring of the organizations within which teachers work have also led to transformation of the professional …
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Understanding the Professional Lives of Female Teachers in Rural Sub-Saharan African Schools: A Capability Perspective
This study examines an important dimension of the global challenge to achieve Education for All: the professional lives of female teachers in rural communities in Sub Saharan Africa. Teachers from five countries (Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Sudan) provide a focus for exploring the …
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Perceptions of middle school mathematics, school science, and technology education teachers regarding selected aspects of interdisciplinary teaming
… seven generalizations regarding selected aspects of interdisciplinary teaming at the middle school level. The generalizations were developed in an effort to understand middle school mathematics, school science, and technology education teachers’ perceptions regarding teaming and interdisciplinary …
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An investigation into the challenges teachers face when teaching in a low socio-economic primary school
Teaching is a challenging profession. Teachers and schools that deal primarily with disadvantaged students are faced with a unique set of challenges that make their work more complex and demanding, and consequently make these schools harder to staff. According to Angus, Olney & Ainley (2007), “The …
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Estudio sobre las innovaciones del personal docente en el desempeño laboral a partir de las condiciones generadas por la pandemia Covid19 en el municipio de San Miguel, 2020
… docentes se ven obligados en la actualización en ofimática, redes sociales y aulas virtuales que generan incomodidad para trabajar en ellas, las personas docentes no han tenido las herramientas tecnológicas utilizando la plataforma de WhatsApp como medio fácil entre docentes y estudiantes; existió …
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Veteran K-6 Public School Teachers: Remaining Committed and Staying Engaged in Their Careers
… study involved 15 veteran K-6 public school teachers – each having taught a minimum of 24 years - from several districts in Southern California. It identified and examined what factors influenced the ongoing commitment and engagement of these teachers over the course of their careers. Factors …
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Learning to resist: exploring habitus (trans)formation of critical teacher-activists before 1994
… the enabling conditions for the emergence of teacher activism before South Africa's democratic transition in the 1990s. It does so by examining the life experiences of four teacher activists that became politically active in their childhood and youth, and who entered the field of teaching …
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A Place of Yes? Experiences of Educators Participating in Site-based Teacher-led Reform
<p>This study examined the experiences of four teachers who participated as mentors in a teacher-designed and -implemented creative community at a middle school in southern California. Using the arts-based research methodologies of poetic inquiry, narrative inquiry, and painting, the researcher …