International Patterns of Teacher Discontent

International Patterns of Teacher Discontent

This article reports the results of research into the career motivation and satisfaction of a sample of over 3,000 teachers and school administrators in four countries: Australia, New Zealand, England, and the USA. Using the participants' own words, we explore the effects on educators of recent...

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Main Authors: Catherine Scott, Barbara Stone, Steve Dinham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Arizona State University 2001-08-01
Series:Education Policy Analysis Archives
Online Access:http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/357
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spelling doaj-d8912efd6afc4038baacac8713ffa9302020-11-25T03:23:29ZengArizona State UniversityEducation Policy Analysis Archives1068-23412001-08-01928International Patterns of Teacher DiscontentCatherine ScottBarbara StoneSteve DinhamThis article reports the results of research into the career motivation and satisfaction of a sample of over 3,000 teachers and school administrators in four countries: Australia, New Zealand, England, and the USA. Using the participants' own words, we explore the effects on educators of recent international educational change, understood here as a subcategory of more general social trends. Bourdieu's concepts of the Right and Left Hands of the state are used to interpret the experience of teaching in a climate where, while more is expected and demanded of schools, and schools and teachers are scrutinised as never before, educational resources have become scarcer, and the status and image of teaching as a profession has declined. http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/357
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description This article reports the results of research into the career motivation and satisfaction of a sample of over 3,000 teachers and school administrators in four countries: Australia, New Zealand, England, and the USA. Using the participants' own words, we explore the effects on educators of recent international educational change, understood here as a subcategory of more general social trends. Bourdieu's concepts of the Right and Left Hands of the state are used to interpret the experience of teaching in a climate where, while more is expected and demanded of schools, and schools and teachers are scrutinised as never before, educational resources have become scarcer, and the status and image of teaching as a profession has declined.
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