Thesis
Teaching: side effects may occur the conditions of teaching leading to burnout
University of Iowa
Master of Arts (MA), University of Iowa
Autumn 2023
DOI: 10.25820/etd.006960
Abstract
This research explores the conditions of teaching in public education about the researchers' feelings of burnout through a/r/tography and artmaking. The study focuses on how a/r/togrphay, as a creative and reflective methodology, explores my experience of teacher burnout and what insights this process can offer. Specifically, the research question sought to answer, through art making, whether teaching conditions in a Title 1 district are sustainable. If the conditions of teaching in public schools continue to be ignored, the number of teachers leaving the profession will continue to rise. The study indicates that teacher burnout is not the individual teachers' responsibility but a side effect of systemic issues within the public education system.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Teaching: side effects may occur the conditions of teaching leading to burnout
- Creators
- Morgan J. Forbes
- Contributors
- Allison Rowe (Advisor)Carolyn Colvin (Committee Member)Samuel Tanner (Committee Member)Andrew Casto (Committee Member)
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Arts (MA), University of Iowa
- Degree in
- Teaching and Learning (Art Education)
- Date degree season
- Autumn 2023
- DOI
- 10.25820/etd.006960
- Publisher
- University of Iowa
- Number of pages
- x, 66 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright 2023 Morgan J. Forbes
- Language
- English
- Date submitted
- 12/01/2023
- Description illustrations
- Illustrations, tables
- Description bibliographic
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 62-66).
- Public Abstract (ETD)
This thesis is about teacher burnout experienced by me, a young public educator teaching in a Title 1 school in rural Iowa. Teachers have been leaving their positions at an alarming rate with little done to help the educators themselves. This research explores what has already been written about what educators can do to help their well-being while teaching within the public education system. It also explores the specific conditions within teaching that impact a teacher’s burnout. I combined my skills as an artist, researcher, and teacher to dive deeper into what was causing my burnout as a teacher and why simple self-care suggested by the research was not enough to alleviate the feelings of emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and decreased lack of accomplishment. Through making, researching, and teaching, I was able to create new meaning and understanding of the conditions of teaching in a public school and how that affects my experience of burnout.
- Academic Unit
- Teaching and Learning
- Record Identifier
- 9984547148302771
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