Keeping Teachers Happy: Job Satisfaction among Primary School Teachers in Rural Northwest China

By T. Sargent, E. Hannum. Comparative Education Review, 2005

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Subfields: Demography, Education

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Citations in the corpus

• The relationship between extrinsic motivation, job satisfaction and life satisfaction amongst employees in a public organisation (2014, result): “Consistent with this finding, a number of previous studies (Lewis & Frank, 2002; Omar & Ogenyi, 2006; Sargent & Hannum, 2003) concur that remuneration is strongly and positively related to job satisfaction.”
• The relationships between school autonomy gap, principal leadership, teachers’ job satisfaction and organizational commitment (2017, background): “Empirical research has confirmed that social capital is significantly related to the desire to shift professions in China, where crosscommunity disparities in social, human, and cultural resources have increasingly defined school conditions (Sargent and Hannum, 2005).”
• Job Satisfaction and Motivation of Teachers of Public Educational Institutions (2012, background): “In the teaching profession, the position of teachers offers them recognition for their capabilities and accomplishments (Sargent & Hannum, 2005).”
• The cognitive, social and emotional processes of teacher identity construction in a pre-service teacher education programme (2015, background): “As teacher recruitment and attrition has become a global concern, schools serving poor rural communities in China face tremendous difficulties in recruiting and retaining teachers (Sargent and Hannum 2005).”
• Parental Education and Investment in Children’s Human Capital in Rural China (2006, background): “While children are still in school, rural parents often make significant nonrequired investments in their children’s education (Hannum 2005) to increase their chances for gaining off-farm employment and admission to competitive secondary schools and universities.”