Description:
A recent report by the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, Worthy Work, STILL Unlivable Wages, highlights the relationship between poverty-level wages and high turnover among early childhood teachers. High turnover in early childhood programs disrupts center operations, alters the workplace environment, and affects the quality of teaching. But low wages are not the only influence on teachers' decisions to leave their programs or the field. Teacher burnout is also a contributing factor to the high turnover rate in the early childhood field. Burnout was the focus of a recent study of 108 early childhood teachers conducted by Konstantina Rentzou in Greece. The purpose of the research was to determine the extent to which teachers experience burnout and the degree to which the work environment contributes to the dimensions of burnout--emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a reduced sense of personal accomplishment. (author abstract)
Resource Type:
Reports & Papers
Country:
Greece