scholarly journals “I teach, therefore I am?”

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-46
Author(s):  
Kristel M Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Job Burnout ◽  
Teacher Role ◽  
College Professors ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Adjunct Professors

This exploratory study sought to identify the existence of a “teaching persona” in college professors. Specifically, an examination of self-reported differences in traits displayed as teachers versus in everyday life was conducted. Also investigated were feelings of job satisfaction and burnout in relation to these differences. Findings suggest that professors see themselves as more extraverted, emotionally stable, caring/supportive, professionally competent, and better communicators as teachers than in their everyday lives. However, adjunct professors lacked distinctiveness in all areas. Social science professors were less open to new experiences as teachers than in their everyday lives, while natural science professors were more open. In a few instances, larger differences between one’s teaching persona and everyday life were significantly related to more burnout and less job satisfaction. Being more conscientious, feeling more capable, and perceiving oneself as a better communicator in the teacher-role was associated with more job burnout.

Predictors of Job Burnout in Reporters and Copy Editors

1993 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Betsy B. Cook ◽  
Steven R. Banks
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Job Burnout ◽  
Psychological Test ◽  
Years Of Experience ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
Copy Editor ◽  
Job Title

This exploratory study applied a widely used psychological test to measure job burnout among a sample of reporters and copy editors at five daily newspapers of dissimilar size. Results indicate that the employee most likely to suffer from burnout is a young, entry-level journalist working as a copy editor at a small dairy newspaper. However, other variables were also found to significantly relate to job burnout. These include age, job title, total years of experience, income and job satisfaction.

A Marriage of Social Science, Natural Science, and Humanities

1994 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 391-392
Author(s):  
Anita P. Barbee ◽  
Michael R. Cunningham
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Natural Science

Hopscotch Modernism: On Everyday Life and the Blurring of Art and Social Science

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Highmore
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Systematic Study ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Point Of Departure

From a remarkably innovative point of departure, Ben Highmore (University of Sussex) suggests that modernist literature and art were not the only cultural practices concerned with reclaiming the everyday and imbuing it with significance. At the same time, Roger Caillois was studying the spontaneous interactions involved in games such as hopscotch, while other small scale institutions such as the Pioneer Health Centre in Peckham, London attempted to reconcile systematic study and knowledge with the non-systematic exchanges in games and play. Highmore suggests that such experiments comprise a less-often recognised ‘modernist heritage’, and argues powerfully for their importance within early-twentieth century anthropology and the newly-emerged field of cultural studies.

Letter to the Editor. From a polemic paradox to a proper perspective of job burnout and job satisfaction

2019 ◽  
Vol 130 (4) ◽  
pp. 1405-1406
Author(s):  
Arturo Juárez García ◽  
Pedro R. Gil-Monte ◽  
César Merino-Soto ◽  
Javier García Rivas
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Job Burnout ◽  
Letter To The Editor ◽  
Proper Perspective

Job Involvement, Job Stress, Job Satisfaction, and Organizational Commitment and the Burnout of Correctional Staff

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie L. Griffin ◽  
Nancy L. Hogan ◽  
Eric G. Lambert ◽  
Kasey A. Tucker-Gail ◽  
David N. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Job Stress ◽  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Job Involvement ◽  
Job Burnout ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Correctional Staff ◽  
Personnel Shortages

In an era in which rising costs, shrinking budgets, and personnel shortages are common, it is increasingly important to provide a positive work situation to ensure worker stability. Research indicates that job burnout is a negative response that is harmful to the employee and to the organization. Depersonalization, emotional exhaustion, and feeling a lack of accomplishment at work are all dimensions of job burnout. This study examined the association of job involvement, job stress, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment with burnout among correctional staff. The findings highlight the significance of these variables in relation to burnout. Specifically, job satisfaction had an inverse relationship with emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a sense of reduced accomplishment at work, whereas job stress had a significant positive relationship with depersonalization and emotional exhaustion. Job involvement also had a positive association with emotional exhaustion, whereas commitment to the organization had no relationship with any of the three dimensions of burnout.

Knowing as being: Psychology, limits to knowledge, and an ethics of solidarity

2020 ◽  
pp. 095935432097870
Author(s):  
Peiwei Li
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Zen Buddhism ◽  
Philosophical Foundation ◽  
Moral Relevance ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Buddhist Practice ◽  
Science Building ◽  
Critical Science ◽  
Zen Buddhist

Critical epistemological reflection facilitates disciplinary self-reflection, and yet the limitation of this practice needs to examined. This article explores the possibility of a praxis-oriented philosophical foundation for psychology through investigating the limits to knowledge. Integrating insights from critical communicative pragmatist perspectives and Zen Buddhism, this paper outlines what constitutes limits to knowledge and contests the boundary of epistemology, in relation to psychology as a natural science, social science, and critical science. Building upon this deconstruction/reconstruction, Zen Buddhist practice is drawn upon to further illuminate the potential to center psychology through the praxis of knowing as being, which is nontotalizing and always open to uncertainty and fallibility. My key argument is that any notion of epistemology is inadequate when divorced from its intra-connection to being and practice that have inherent ethical and moral relevance. This necessitates deferring philosophizing to a constant and endless practice that upholds an ethics of solidarity.

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