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Title

'I love teaching but ...': international patterns of teacher discontent

Author(s)

Scott, Catherine;  Stone, Barbara;  Dinham, Steve

Abstract

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.

Publication type

Journal article

Source

Education Policy Analysis Archives, Vol. 9, no. 28 (2001)

Publication year

2001

Keyword(s)

Australia;  Bourdieu, Pierre (1930-2002);  Career satisfaction;  New Zealand;  Teachers

Publisher

College of Education, Arizona State University

ISSN

1068-2341

Publisher URL

http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v9n28.html

Copyright

Copyright © 2001 by the Education Policy Analysis Archives. Published version of this paper reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.

Additional information

The research reported here was supported by grants from UWS Nepean, The NSW Teachers' Federation, NSW DET, Massey University, The Nottingham Trent University and Rowan University. The support is gratefully acknowledged.

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