Beginning teacher attrition: a question of identity making and identity shifting

Social capital: a vital ingredient for retaining foreign language teachers

“…Complementing this data is the prominence of value in former teachers' decisions to leave the field, as well as teachers' interviews, which were sprinkled with phrases like 'just a language teacher' and 'not a real teacher'. It can be argued that this low sense of value can result in a low sense of professional identity, which has been linked to teacher attrition in a number of international studies (Hochstetler 2011;Hong 2010;Schaefer 2013). Low levels of value were particularly expressed by the primary school teacher interviewees, who often felt they did not have the same level of value as classroom teachers.…”

Teaching Careers: Exploring Links Between Well-Being, Burnout, Self-Efficacy and Praxis Shock

“…Gu and Day (2007) emphasize that teachers' abilities to "cope" in their professional lives are impacted by their identities and professional life phases, which are in turn mediated by issues in their personal and situated lives, their professional values, beliefs, and external policy agendas. The "ability to cope", or remain resilient in the face of considerable job uncertainty, job stress, policy changes and career challenges, appears to be most challenging to teachers at the beginning of their careers, when they tend to burn out and leave the profession (Schaefer, 2013). Teachers' responses to career changes and stress vary, but it does seem that teachers are leaving the profession because they are "burning out" (Parliament of Australia Media Release, 2019).…”

Investigating novice teacher experiences of the teaching dynamics operating in selected school communities in Finland

“…Tension with group management can be accompanied by feelings of helplessness, frustration, or anger (Olsen, 2010;Schaefer, 2013). In this research, teachers reported their work brought a lot of joy and happiness as well as disgust and dislike:…”