Teacher Status and the Role of Teacher Unions in the Context of New Professionalism

Symeonidis, Vasileios; Stromquist, Nelly P.

doi:10.5817/sp2020-2-2

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“…Again, there is openness inside and outside the system. Mental health education management in secondary schools has shown increasingly important characteristics under the current situation [16]. At the same time, students' mental health education requires family and society to cooperate with school work and play the educational cooperation, and the external environment of school management has a nonnegligible influence on it.…”

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A Survey of Teachers’ Status in Mental Health Education Management Based on Big Data Analysis

Wang

Xue

Zhang

2022

Occupational Therapy International

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This paper uses the theory of mental health education to conduct an in-depth study and analysis of teachers’ educational management, and based on this, it designs a survey method on teachers’ status and analyzes its strategic methods based on the results of the survey. Using literature analysis, questionnaires, survey interviews, and statistical analysis, the analysis of mental health of primary and secondary school teachers in the city was made. The results of the survey and analysis of the questionnaire results were used to construct a compatible mental health evaluation model. It was found that the overall level of elementary school teachers’ mental health is poor at present, and different levels of mental health were presented with school sections and ages. A total of 286 questionnaires were distributed, 278 valid questionnaires were returned, and statistical analysis was conducted using EXCEL tables based on the collected data. The data analysis results show that the mental health level of teachers in middle school is significantly lower than that of teachers in primary school, and the mental health level of teachers in primary and secondary schools decreases with the increase of age. Therefore, to prevent the small and the gradual, start from the source; do a good job in the publicity of mental health education in peacetime; popularize the knowledge of mental health, so that teachers have a correct understanding of mental health education; improve the professional level of teachers; set up professional teachers in professional positions; establish sound job system and evaluation system, etc. Promote the balanced development of school psychological counseling rooms, strengthen the construction of professional teachers in mental health education, improve various systems of mental health education, comprehensively popularize teachers’ mental health education and training, and mobilize teachers’ enthusiasm for scientific research on mental health education. Improve the understanding of mental health education in colleges and universities, and regard mental health education as the foundation of all education.

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A Survey of Teachers’ Status in Mental Health Education Management Based on Big Data Analysis

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Zhang

2022

Occupational Therapy International

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“…In turn, Education International (EI), an organization representing teachers' unions around the world, also conducts periodic worldwide surveys on teachers and their working conditions. Two such surveys took place in 2012 and 2015, with responses from Africa, Asia-Paci c, Europe, Latin America and North America/Caribbean (Symeonidis and Stromquist, 2020). A third, more…”

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“…e global EI surveys of teaching union leaders in 2012 and 2015 (Symeonidis and Stromquist, 2020) highlight several problematic issues. Although salaries, according to around half of respondents, were better in 2015 than in 2012, responses pointed to a decline in overall working conditions.…”

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“…More than two thirds of teachers who responded to the EI surveys (Symeonidis and Stromquist, 2020) considered that teaching was not an attractive profession for young people, a situation that possibly impacts on reported teacher shortages in Africa, Europe, Latin America and the USA (García and Weiss, 2019).…”

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The teaching profession in context: issues for policy and practice around the world

Ávalos¹,

Gupta²,

LaDousa³

et al. 2022

Reimagining Education: The International Science and Evidence Based Education Assessment

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T his chapter reviews current debates concerning teachers and the teaching profession from a global perspective. It draws on related research on teachers' professionalism and agency, as well as on the contribution of initial teacher education and in-service professional development to identity, motivation and the quality of teachers' work. The analysis also considers various political contexts and how these a ect the enactment of teacher professionalism. Among the major issues identi ed is the impact of a widely prevalent and narrow emphasis on standards-based teacher accountability on teachers' lives, well-being and work. Also highlighted are the strenuous working conditions faced by teachers in countries as diverse as India, South Africa and England. Critiquing a widespread trend towards 'deprofessionalizing' teaching, the chapter stresses the importance to teachers of collaborative professionalism. Of immediate relevance to the context in which this report was drafted is the discussion of cross-cutting issues arising from the impact of COVID-19 on teachers' work and wellbeing. Special attention is given to the debates, intensi ed by the pandemic, surrounding the role of technology in teaching, and questions this raises concerning the resourcing of schools, equitable provision, preparation of teachers and our fundamental assumptions regarding the nature and purpose of teaching as a profession.

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“…Already an existing problem, this has no doubt been made worse by COVID-19 and the anti-intellectualism within Australian culture. Symeonidis and Stromquist note that, “Higher proportions of teachers with civil servant status can be steadily observed in primary and secondary education, whereas contractual status was reported more often in higher education and early childhood education” (2020, p. 17).…”

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Education focused pracademics on twitter: building democratic fora

Kolber

Heggart

2021

JPCC

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PurposeThis paper explores the features of pracademic practice within online spaces where pracademics, academics and teachers interact.Design/methodology/approachThis paper uses autoethnographic case studies to showcase the boundary-spanning thinking of two pracademics, one a practicing teacher, the other an early career researcher, to provide an overview of how pracademics are engaging with research and the profession online in Australia, in 2021.FindingsThe paper describes five key features that are central to the development of pracademic practice. They are rigour and depth, discussion beyond immediate cultural context, accessibility, knowledge creation and collaboration.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper is focused on the teacher and early career researcher perspectives on pracademia, due to the extant literature focusing on the well-established academic perspective primarily. It focuses on fora within the Twitter social media platform and the #edureading group specifically. The authors propose that the use of Twitter fora, as those outlined, provides a legitimate form of professional development, and does contribute to the development of pracademics.Originality/valueThis piece itself is an output of pracademia; through the writing of this paper, the authors show that pracademia is possible through teacher and researcher collaboration. The focus on online spaces, pracademic teachers and a coverage of what's occurring provide a new agenda for further research and consideration.

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Teacher Status and the Role of Teacher Unions in the Context of New Professionalism

Cited by 11 publications

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A Survey of Teachers’ Status in Mental Health Education Management Based on Big Data Analysis

A Survey of Teachers’ Status in Mental Health Education Management Based on Big Data Analysis

The teaching profession in context: issues for policy and practice around the world

Education focused pracademics on twitter: building democratic fora

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