Teacher Job Dissatisfaction: Implications for Teacher Sustainability and Social Transformation
- Title
- Teacher Job Dissatisfaction: Implications for Teacher Sustainability and Social Transformation
- Author(s)
- Chinedu I. Okeke and Pamela N. Mtyuda See all items with this value
- Date
- 2017 See all items with this value
- Description
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Teachers play a key role in the social transformation agenda. This agentic position of the teacher implicates an agenda for sustainability programmes that position them for this complex responsibility. A qualitative case study research design was employed to obtain the perspectives of teachers on job dissatisfaction. The researchers followed a semi-structured interview approach to explore teachersí broader understanding on causes of job dissatisfaction among them. Data was interpreted through the narrative analysis model. Results indicate that a lack of resources, overcrowded classes and lack of discipline among learners were serious sources of dissatisfaction among teachers. Administrative issues, lack of recognition by principals and parents for good work done also caused
dissatisfaction among teachers in this study. It was also indicative that job dissatisfaction caused disengagement of some teachers with a consequent lack of focus on professional activities and being negative in their job. The study concludes that teacher satisfaction is germane for the sustainability of social transformation. - Publisher
- Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability See all items with this value
- Keywords
- Agency, dissatisfaction, education, teacher sustainability, transformation See all items with this value
- volume
- 19
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 54-68
- Item sets
- Journal Articles
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