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The positive and negative aspects of professional work in the experience of teachers
The positive and negative aspects of professional work in the experience of teachers

Author(s): Wanda Maria Dróżka
Subject(s): Education, Present Times (2010 - today), Globalization
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego
Keywords: teachers; careers; work values; needs; aspirations;

Summary/Abstract: Article contains an analysis of the results of research on the value of the work of teachers in different: young, middle-age and older . To care about the quality of education and the teaching profession, interest seems to know what teachers appreciate in their work, what they consider most important, what they especially stimulates and motivates, which makes them satisfaction, which triggers the activity of creative and commitment; what they would like to achieve in his life and career. What the factors of their dissatisfaction, which cannot be reconciled, which immediately would change. As these preferences change over the years. The research was conducted at the end of 2014 and 2015 using the survey “Life’s aspirations, values and needs of teachers”. Total collected 405 surveys from teachers in the 3 age groups, teachers, young, middle-age and older. In the light of the studies carried out have been observed a characteristic tendency to stronger emphasis in the work and life of teachers values more associated with everyday life, the current work, school qualifications, degrees of advancement, practice, working conditions, life-and this applies not only to the young. Smaller is the emphasis on the importance of the values associated with ethos, lifestyle-oriented projects intelligence missions, responsible for the young generation, the future of the country, the values specific to the tradition of Polish culture and progressive, democratic role intelligence in the history of our country. Studies indicate that in the professional work of teachers there is a significant area of cases and issues challenging, that worry, the root causes of discontent, barriers to work and life. Belong to such things as: “material situation”, “conditions of rest”, “the availability of entertainment” and “social relations in school”. Despite the passage of time, the results of the study have gained relevance, in the situation of persistent tensions in the professional background of teachers, which resulted in a strike in 2019. The paper is an attempt of deepened reflection over the processes of globalisation. The author is trying, to look at these processes under the angle of challenges they are carrying which for modern societies and countries in the social and economic sphere. The globalization is measuring a lot nonetheless for her the large impact is being taken note to the course of economic processes. They are shaping, because the economic position of individual states, that is the living conditions of societies as a whole.

  • Issue Year: 33/2019
  • Issue No: 33
  • Page Range: 101-123
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: English