Journal Articles
Teacher alienation in Hong Kong
- Teacher alienation in Hong Kong
- Discourse-Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 39(3), 335-346, 2018
- Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd
- 2018
-
- Hong Kong
-
- 1997.7 onwards
-
- Unknown or Unspecified
- Teachers' negative emotions began to receive attention in the Hong Kong context in the mid-1990s. As negative emotions may affect both teachers' well-being and the quality of their teaching, Hong Kong education policy-makers and educators have used psychological approaches to determine the reasons why teachers experience negative feelings. However, these approaches fail to accommodate the social causes of negative emotions. Therefore, this study investigates the possible social causes of teachers' negative emotions from the perspective of alienation theory. In-depth interviews with 21 teachers in Hong Kong reveal that Hong Kong teachers may be suffering from alienation (characterised by a sense of powerlessness, meaninglessness, isolation, and self-estrangement) due to their experiences of teaching, their employment status, and their structural position in schools, which are related to the occupational and organisational structure of teaching. The findings also indicate that patterns of alienation may differ between more and less experienced teachers. [Copyright of Discourse-Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education is the property of Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd. Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2016.1261084]
-
- English
- Journal Articles
-
- 01596306
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/1a2aa9b4
- 2018-12-11
Recent Journal Articles
The role of the research environment and motivation in PhD students’ well-being: A perspective from self-determination theoryJournal Articles
Longitudinal associations between school engagement and bullying victimization in school and cyberspace in Hong Kong: Latent variables and an autoregressive cross-lagged panel studyJournal Articles
An investigation of longitudinal associations between psychological distress and student victimization by teachersJournal Articles
Examining the relationships among teaching assistants’ self-efficacy, emotional well-being and job satisfactionJournal Articles
Affiliation with delinquent peers as a mediator of the relationships between family conflict and school bullying: A short-term longitudinal panel studyJournal Articles
Which well-being elements are fundamental for early childhood educators in the Chinese context? A network analysisJournal Articles
Leading digital transformation and eliminating barriers for teachers to incorporate artificial intelligence in basic education in Hong KongJournal Articles
Investigating university students’ digital citizenship development through the lens of digital literacy practice: A translingual and transemiotizing perspectiveJournal Articles