scholarly journals Teacher and Staff Wellbeing: Understanding the Experiences of School Staff

2021 ◽  
pp. 715-740
Author(s):  
Faye McCallum
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
School Staff ◽  
The Future ◽  
Teacher Wellbeing ◽  
People Skills ◽  
Manual Tasks ◽  
Productivity Potential ◽  
Staff Wellbeing

AbstractThe health of the teaching profession is essential for the innovation and productivity potential of our young people. Teachers are faced with preparing young people for an unknown future, with the reduction of manual tasks and an increased focus on people skills, problem-solving, and creative thinking. Teachers are critical in helping students achieve, belong, and develop socially and emotionally. But how well prepared are teachers and other school staff for shifting conditions, and how satisfied and productive are they? The reality is that many teachers, leaders, and school staff are struggling. Drawing on two research studies, this chapter explores experiences of staff wellbeing. Findings indicate that for young people to be well, to achieve at school, and to be prepared for the future, teachers must also be well. Strategies for supporting teacher wellbeing and implications for the future are discussed. A well-educated population is key to a nation’s prosperity, peace, and human flourishing.

scholarly journals The Australian labour market in 2020

2021 ◽  
pp. 002218562110022
Author(s):  
Elisa Birch ◽  
Alison Preston
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Older People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Food Services ◽  
Hours Worked ◽  
The Future

This article provides a review of the Australian labour market in 2020. It outlines the monetary and fiscal responses to COVID-19 (including JobKeeper, JobSeeker and JobMaker policies), describes trends in employment, unemployment and underemployment and summarises the Fair Work Commission’s 2020 minimum wage decision. Data show that in the year to September 2020, total monthly hours worked fell by 5.9% for males and 3.8% for females. Job loss was proportionately larger amongst young people (aged 20–29) and older people. It was also disproportionately higher in female-dominated sectors such as Accommodation and Food Services. Unlike the earlier recession (1991), when more than 90% of jobs lost were previously held by males, a significant share (around 40%) of the job loss in the 2020 recession (year to August 2020) were jobs previously held by females. Notwithstanding a pick-up in employment towards year’s end, the future remains uncertain.

scholarly journals Future of Sustainable Management of Energy Companies in Terms of Attitudes and Preferences of the Younger Generation

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 3207
Author(s):  
Arnold Pabian ◽  
Katarzyna Bilińska-Reformat ◽  
Barbara Pabian
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Social Attitude ◽  
Future Activity ◽  
The Future ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
Energy Companies ◽  
High Degree

The future of the energy sector depends on the younger generation. The paper presents the results of the study, the aim of which was to determine to what extent younger generation is pro-ecological and pro-social, and whether they will include pro-ecological and pro-social activities in the management of energy companies. It is especially important to implement sustainable management in the energy sector. The study found that only 33.9% of young people are highly pro-ecological and 28.6% highly pro-social. As many as 83.0% of the younger generation show low and medium interest in environmental protection. Declarations of young people concerning high degree of inclusion of pro-ecological and pro-social activities in management are at the level of 49.9% and 58.1%. However, in many cases, these intentions do not coincide with the high pro-ecological and pro-social attitude of young people. This means that their future activity for sustainable management may be low. According to the survey, the younger generation to a large extent is not prepared to continue efforts for sustainable development in the future in the energy companies.

The Future Of The Teaching Profession

1987 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 219-225
Author(s):  
Martin Haberman ◽  
James Collins
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Profession ◽  
The Future

Unterstützung manueller Tätigkeiten*/Supporting manual tasks - Using the example of the quality-critical process of scarfing of CFRP structures

2016 ◽  
Vol 106 (09) ◽  
pp. 624-630
Author(s):  
R. Weidner ◽  
R. Rodeck ◽  
J. P. Prof. Wuldfsberg ◽  
T. Prof. Schüppstuhl
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Fiber ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Plastic ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Reinforced Plastic ◽  
The Future ◽  
Manual Tasks ◽  
Critical Process

Trotz Streben nach dem Automatisieren von Produktionsprozessen in vielen Bereichen werden manuelle Tätigkeiten auch in Zukunft einen hohen Stellenwert bei der Wertschöpfung einnehmen. Ein Ansatz zur Lösung der damit verbundenen Herausforderungen sind Unterstützungssysteme nach dem Konzept des „Human Hybrid Robot – HHR“. Dieser Beitrag stellt konzeptionelle Überlegungen für entsprechende Systeme am Beispiel des Schäftens von Strukturen aus kohlefaserverstärkten Kunststoffen (CFK) vor.   Despite all efforts for the automation of production processes in numerous areas, manual tasks will continue to play an important role within value creation chains in the future. Support systems based on the concept of the “Human Hybrid Robot – HHR” are one approach to solve the challenges related to this. On this basis, the article introduces conceptual considerations for appropriate systems using the example of scarfing of carbon fiber reinforced plastic structures.

Millennial fears

2019 ◽  
pp. 113-138
Author(s):  
Jennie Bristow
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young People ◽  
Direct Consequence ◽  
The Future ◽  
Education Work

This chapter looks beneath the hype and the horror that characterises Millennial myth-making, and explores the reality that confronts young people in their struggles with education, work, and housing. It shows that their experience, like that of the generations before them, is a mixed one. In some respects, they have more opportunities, more stuff, and more choices than young people have ever had; in others, their lives, aspirations, and freedoms are extraordinarily constrained. The much-discussed elements of Millennial angst can similarly be compared to the difficulties faced by young people at various points throughout history, and declared to be nothing particularly new, or even all that bad. But Millennials experience these problems as new to them, and in a particular context. They have grown up at a time when cautious hopes for the future jostle with a heightened sense of fear; when ‘the young’ are hailed as the answer to questions that nobody has quite worked out; when a prevalent generationalist outlook presents young people's problems as a direct consequence of the mistakes made by their parents' generation, which they are expected to suffer from rather than overcome. These features of our ‘millennial moment’ affect both how young adults make sense of the Zeitgeist, and how they express it.

scholarly journals Māori whānau talk about whānau success: Findings from Round 1 of Ngā Tau Tuangahuru—the Māori and Pacific Education Initiative (MPEI) longitudinal study

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Fiona Cram ◽  
Tanya Samu ◽  
Reremoana Theodore ◽  
Rachael Trotman
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Young People ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Educational Success ◽  
The Future ◽  
Main Barrier ◽  
Education Initiative

From 2009 to 2014 Foundation North, a philanthropic trust serving Auckland and Northland, funded a Māori and Pacific Education Initiative (MPEI) designed to facilitate Māori and Pacific students’ educational achievement. The longitudinal study, Ngā Tau Tuangahuru, described here was funded in late 2014 to explore what happened next for families and students who had been involved in MPEI initiatives, with a focus on family success and student educational success. The first data collection round of this study took place in 2017, and 69 families were interviewed. This article examines what the 35 Māori whānau (56 individuals) said about family success and about supporting the success of young people in their whānau. For many whānau, success embodied happiness, collective wellbeing, and good whānau relationships, alongside education and having a plan for the future. This success was most often hampered by financial restrictions. Whānau wanted young people to be achieving in education, working hard, and engaged in extracurricular activities. Getting distracted by outside influences (e.g., social media) was seen as the main barrier to young people’s success. Implications from this study for the evaluation of initiatives designed to support whānau success are presented.

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