The satisfaction of Alaska's isolated rural teachers with their work life
Thsi study examines the sources of job satisfaction and dissatisfaction among 304 teachers randomly selected from small isolated schools in rural Alaska. These teachers are highly satisfied about their relationship with students and their pay benefits. Large numbers of teachers are dissatisfied, how...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.573.5020 2023-05-15T16:07:15+02:00 The satisfaction of Alaska's isolated rural teachers with their work life Judith Kleinfeld Ed. D G. Williamson Mcdiarmid The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 1986 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.573.5020 http://www.jrre.psu.edu/articles/v3,n3,p117-120,Kleinfeld.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.573.5020 http://www.jrre.psu.edu/articles/v3,n3,p117-120,Kleinfeld.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.jrre.psu.edu/articles/v3,n3,p117-120,Kleinfeld.pdf text 1986 ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T12:38:34Z Thsi study examines the sources of job satisfaction and dissatisfaction among 304 teachers randomly selected from small isolated schools in rural Alaska. These teachers are highly satisfied about their relationship with students and their pay benefits. Large numbers of teachers are dissatisfied, however, with community amenities, their students ' academic progress, and especially, school district management. Most of these teachers teach in Indian and Eskimo villages; yet they feel that interorganizational relationships with the district office cause them more stress than cross-cultural relationships with the students and community. In many isolated rural schools, high teacher turnover erodes the quality of education rural students receive. Hartrick, Hills, arid Wallin [3] found that six out of ten teachers employed in rural British Columbia were not teaching in the same district five years later. A recent study [5] of teachers in rural Alaska found that a ma-jority have taught at their present schools less than two years. Few researchers have asked what causes job dissatisfac-tion among teachers in isolated rural schools. The few Text eskimo* Alaska Unknown Indian |
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Thsi study examines the sources of job satisfaction and dissatisfaction among 304 teachers randomly selected from small isolated schools in rural Alaska. These teachers are highly satisfied about their relationship with students and their pay benefits. Large numbers of teachers are dissatisfied, however, with community amenities, their students ' academic progress, and especially, school district management. Most of these teachers teach in Indian and Eskimo villages; yet they feel that interorganizational relationships with the district office cause them more stress than cross-cultural relationships with the students and community. In many isolated rural schools, high teacher turnover erodes the quality of education rural students receive. Hartrick, Hills, arid Wallin [3] found that six out of ten teachers employed in rural British Columbia were not teaching in the same district five years later. A recent study [5] of teachers in rural Alaska found that a ma-jority have taught at their present schools less than two years. Few researchers have asked what causes job dissatisfac-tion among teachers in isolated rural schools. The few |
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