Recruitment and Retention of International School Teachers in Remote Archipelagic Countries: The Fiji Experience

Autor/in	Dos Santos, Luis Miguel
Titel	Recruitment and Retention of International School Teachers in Remote Archipelagic Countries: The Fiji Experience
Quelle	In: Education Sciences, 9 (2019), Artikel 132 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2227-7102
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Teacher Recruitment; Teacher Persistence; Rural Schools; International Schools; Teacher Attitudes; Educational Administration; Leadership Styles; Social Networks; Barriers; Life Style; Career Development; Labor Turnover; Elementary Secondary Education; Fiji; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Lehrerrekrutierung; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; International school; Internationale Schule; Lehrerverhalten; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Führungsstil; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Lebensstil; Berufsentwicklung; Fidschi; Australien
Abstract	In current school environments, teacher recruitment, turnover, and retention present significant problems, particularly for rural and remote international schools in archipelagic countries. Employing the Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT), this study analyzed international school teachers with teaching experience at a Fijian international school about their career development, retention ideas, and the decision of teaching service. As there is not a large population of international school teachers in archipelagic countries due to the unique environment of the school and country, the researcher employed the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to better understand six international school teachers who have taught and are teaching at one of the Fijian international schools. The study categorized two directions for leaving and staying at a remote location. Participants indicated that the managerial styles, negative leadership, and limited social networking were the most significant challenges while respectfulness and simple living style were the most significant advantages of their Fijian teaching experience. As this study mainly focused on the issues for rural, remote, and archipelagic countries, the result of this study serves as one of the first blueprints for organizational leaders in those regions to improve their management styles in order to recruit and retain their skillful professionals. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01