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Improving Teacher Job Satisfaction: The Roles Of Social Capital, Teacher Efficacy, And Support, Suzanne K. Edinger, Matthew J. Edinger
Improving Teacher Job Satisfaction: The Roles Of Social Capital, Teacher Efficacy, And Support, Suzanne K. Edinger, Matthew J. Edinger
School of Professional and Continuing Studies Faculty Publications
In this study, we examine how social capital, teacher efficacy, and organizational support increase teacher job satisfaction. Research suggests that teachers worldwide are exceedingly dissatisfied with their jobs and have significantly higher levels of turnover than their counterparts in other professions. We investigate this phenomenon using a sample of 122 elementary school teachers. We found that teachers’ centrality position, or each teacher’s relationship with every other teacher, in their school’s trust network and the density of a teacher’s academic advice ego-network predicted the development of teacher job satisfaction. Additionally, we found that teacher efficacy mediated the relationship between teacher’s trust …
How Hip-Hop Fell Out Of Love With Obama, Erik Nielson
How Hip-Hop Fell Out Of Love With Obama, Erik Nielson
School of Professional and Continuing Studies Faculty Publications
Barack Obama was once hailed as America's first hip-hop president. Why have so many rappers now given up on 'B-rock'?
Wave Of A Troubled Juvenile Future, Porcher L. Taylor Iii
Wave Of A Troubled Juvenile Future, Porcher L. Taylor Iii
School of Professional and Continuing Studies Faculty Publications
In the violent wake of the recent slaughter in Springfield, Ore., America faces a future wave of juvenile terrorism from Internet-self-trained, Timothy McVeigh-determined and Unabomber-technically-savvy adolescents intent on getting even with a society they deem responsible for their low self-esteem.