Agricultural Educators and the Pandemic: An Evaluation of Work and Life Variables

Autor/inn/en	McKim, Aaron J.; Sorensen, Tyson J.
Titel	Agricultural Educators and the Pandemic: An Evaluation of Work and Life Variables
Quelle	In: Journal of Agricultural Education, 61 (2020) 4, S.214-228 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1042-0541
Schlagwörter	Agriculture Teachers; Agricultural Education; Pandemics; COVID-19; Distance Education; Educational Change; Attitude Change; Stress Variables; Teacher Role; Teacher Responsibility; Role Conflict; Working Hours; Family Work Relationship; Life Satisfaction; Job Satisfaction; Secondary Education; Student Organizations; Ohio; Oklahoma; California; Illinois + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Agriculture; Education; Landwirtschaftliche Ausbildung; Landwirtschaft; Ausbildung; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Bildungsreform; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung; Lehrerrolle; Lehrverpflichtung; Rollenkonflikt; Hours of work; Arbeitszeit; Lebensvollendung; Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Sekundarbereich; Student organisations; Schülerorganisation; Studentenorganisation; Studentenvereinigung; Studentenvertretung; Kalifornien
Abstract	The global COVID-19 pandemic caused immediate and intense changes throughout education, including a reliance on remote instruction. For school-based agricultural education (SBAE) teachers, who rely on experiential and hands-on learning, the changes brought about by COVID-19 required a dramatic pivot in their work responsibilities. The changing work role faced by SBAE teachers was combined with new stresses, obligations, and routines in their life role(s), creating a unique and challenging time for work-life management. The current study spotlighted the changing work and life roles of SBAE teachers before and during COVID-19. Using a blend of the role-conflict and conservation of resources theories, we analyzed work interference with family, family interference with work, work hours, work and life salience, and work and life satisfaction during COVID-19 and, retrospectively, before COVID-19 among a national sample of SBAE teachers. Results illustrated significant changes in the variables studied in relation to COVID-19. These changes were branded the "work domain decline" and "job satisfaction slump" within the research. Critical questions also emerged in the form of research recommendations designed to inform SBAE scholarship which supports the success and satisfaction of SBAE teachers in the post-COVID-19 era. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	American Association for Agricultural Education. P.O. Box 7607, Department of Agricultural and Extension Education, Raleigh, NC 27695. Web site: http://www.aaaeonline.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01