Beatriz Moreno Castillo has presented her master thesis “The Wellbeing of Foreign Language Teachers: An Exploratory Study”
The aim of this study is to research the wellbeing of secondary school foreign language teachers, examining the factors and processes which affect it and how it can be enhanced. The teaching profession is claimed to be remarkably demanding with plenty of responsibilities and challenges on the part of teachers. This is the reason why most studies have traditionally focused on analysing the negative effects of teacher burnout and stress. Nevertheless, in the last few years, there has been a shift of paradigm and teacher wellbeing has started to gain prominence and be widely researched.
By Man
uel J. Cardoso Pulido
University of Granada (Spain)
Wellbeing Dissertation Summary
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Manuel Cardoso Pulido is about to present his doctoral thesis.
This doctoral dissertation is aimed at diagnosing the current situation of pre-service language teacher training in relation to the concept of teacher wellbeing. Specifically, our research is focussed on pre-service foreign language teacher training. Our study combines descriptive, qualitative and quantitative methodos.
La doctora Cristina Pérez Valverde edita el libro “La formación de docentes de lenguas extranjeras: hacia un desarrollo profesional profundo basado en la narratividad”, publicado por Visor Libros (Madrid).
By Cristina Pérez Valverde, Juan Ramón Guijarro Ojeda and Manuel Jesús Cardoso Pulido.
University of Granada (Spain)
INTED, 10th Annual International Technology, Education and Development Conference
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As the first step in our study of foreign language teacher wellbeing, we provide an overview of literature on burnout and wellbeing, together with an analysis of the distinctiveness of foreign language (henceforward FL) teachers.
