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26 Citations
8,956 Views
16 Pages

9 March 2023

This study aimed to investigate how teacher preparation and professional experiential learning catalyze organizational and occupational commitment. Data from Taiwanese lower secondary school teachers who participated in the TALIS 2018 survey were ana...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Educational Research in the Era of 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development)
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  • Open Access
614 Views
22 Pages

9 July 2026

Enhancing preservice teachers’ commitment to teaching is of great significance for improving the stability and sustainable development of the teaching workforce. Teacher education courses constitute a core component of preservice teacher prepar...

(This article belongs to the Section Educational Psychology)
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  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,535 Views
14 Pages

Social Responsibility and University Teacher Training: Keys to Commitment and Social Justice into Schools

  • Estefanía Martínez-Valdivia,
  • Mª del Carmen Pegalajar-Palomino and
  • Antonio Burgos-García

31 July 2020

(1) Background: International crisis situations (social, economic, health and education) need solutions. These situations need high doses of social responsibility among the population. In the educational field, different studies express that training...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,445 Views
16 Pages

4 September 2023

Enhancing teacher retention in underdeveloped regions of Central and Western China is an important issue for high-quality education development. By investigating 1558 teachers from nine provinces and municipalities in these regions, this study uses q...

(This article belongs to the Section Organizational Behaviors)
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  • Open Access
27 Citations
9,030 Views
19 Pages

24 September 2024

Committed and satisfied teachers have been increasingly recognized as valuable assets in enhancing the effectiveness of schools and adapting to evolving education reforms. This study investigates how and under what conditions principals’ authen...

(This article belongs to the Section Educational Psychology)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,741 Views
26 Pages

Teachers’ Emotional Commitment: The Emotional Bond That Sustains Teaching

  • Olena Kostiv,
  • Antonio F. Rodríguez-Hernández and
  • Jonathan Delgado Hernández

This study introduces and validates the construct of Teacher Emotional Commitment (CED), understood as the conative–behavioral dimension that characterizes the emotional bond that teachers establish with their students. To this end, two complem...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Cognition and Emotions)
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  • Open Access
41 Citations
11,364 Views
14 Pages

20 April 2024

Given the global challenge of increasing teacher attrition and turnover rates, the exploration of factors and mechanisms that improve teachers’ organizational commitment has become a pivotal topic in educational research. In this context, the p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Behaviors in Educational Settings—2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
105 Views
19 Pages

26 October 2026

High teacher turnover in early childhood education underscores the need to understand what sustains teachers’ commitment to their work. Although policy often centers on structural factors like class size and teacher experience, organizational s...

(This article belongs to the Section Educational Psychology)
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  • Open Access
120 Citations
15,480 Views
16 Pages

Impact of Teachers’ Commitment to the Relationship between Transformational Leadership and Sustainable Teaching Performance

  • Mohammed Alzoraiki,
  • Abd Rahman Ahmad,
  • Ali Ahmed Ateeq,
  • Gehad Mohammed Ahmed Naji and ,
  • Qais Almaamari and
  • Baligh Ali Hasan Beshr
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4 March 2023

In the field of education, ongoing processes, and optimal schoolwork outcomes require educational leadership, especially in developing countries, due to the lack of sustainable teaching performance and effective leadership. The present study aims to...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,893 Views
13 Pages

10 March 2025

Kindergarten teachers’ performance at work has important implications for the quality of early childhood education and the development of children. Therefore, promoting teachers’ work performance is of interest to kindergarten managers an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Teacher Professional Development and Teaching Practices in Early Childhood Education: An International Landscape)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,215 Views
12 Pages

18 April 2025

With the HEXACO model of personality, this study examined the relationship between HEXACO traits (i.e., honesty–humility, emotionality, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience) and teaching commitment among 20...

(This article belongs to the Section Educational Psychology)
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  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,619 Views
14 Pages

This investigation aimed to explore the mediator role of study engagement (i.e., study vigor and dedication) in the association between self- and other-focused emotion regulation abilities and occupational commitment in a sample of pre-service teache...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Occupational Stress and Health: Psychological Burden and Burnout)
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  • Open Access
1,985 Views
18 Pages

Vitality and Challenging Commitment in Times of Digital Intensification: Evidence for Healthy Educational Organizations Based on Teacher Engagement in Chile

  • Eduardo Sandoval-Obando,
  • Stephanie Armstrong-Gallegos,
  • Mauricio Véliz-Campos,
  • Guido Salazar-Sepúlveda and ,
  • Alejandro Vega-Muñoz and
  • Miguel Salazar-Muñoz
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The rapid digital transformation of education systems has profoundly changed teachers’ working conditions, intensified administrative demands, and highlighted territorial and organizational inequalities. In this context, understanding how these...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,871 Views
15 Pages

The Effect of Antecedents of Teachers’ Subjective Career Success

  • Tri Muji Ingarianti,
  • Fendy Suhariadi,
  • Fajrianthi Fajrianthi and
  • Ika Febrian Kristiana

Career success is often seen as identical to objective matters such as high income and position. Meanwhile, one can see their success better when they build their own criteria of career success. In this regard, the present study aims to see the effec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Stress and Work)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,939 Views
19 Pages

8 August 2024

Concerning the influence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on teacher wellbeing within the higher education sector in China, this study is a synthesis of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs) for a broader understan...

(This article belongs to the Section Psychology of Sustainability and Sustainable Development)
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  • Open Access
26 Citations
9,511 Views
22 Pages

21 July 2025

This study investigates the creators, effects, and inhibitors of technostress among STEM teachers, addressing a critical yet underexplored issue in the digitalization of education. Grounded in the technostress model and the job demands–resource...

(This article belongs to the Section Educational Psychology)
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  • Open Access
650 Views
19 Pages

Motivational Factors Influencing Ethiopian Student Teachers’ Self-Efficacy in Adopting AI in Education

  • Adula Bekele Hunde,
  • Eyvind Elstad,
  • Knut-Andreas Abben Christophersen,
  • Are Turmo and ,
  • Fekede Tuli Gemeda and
  • Eyueil Abate Demissie
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Understanding the motivational factors influencing student teachers’ self-efficacy in adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) is essential in technology-driven learning environments, but this area has received less research attention in resource-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Holistic Education: What It Is and How It Works)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
613 Views
25 Pages

20 July 2026

Early childhood education (ECE) in Vietnam remains a heavily feminized profession, deeply influenced by traditional gender stereotypes. This study employs an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design, involving a survey of 256 male teachers and 12...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,140 Views
15 Pages

Over the past decade, there has been an intensified emphasis on STEM education to correspond with the goals of twenty-first century education. Educators play a vital role in executing a cohesive approach to interdisciplinary teaching and learning; he...

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52 Citations
8,202 Views
20 Pages

21 April 2022

The strategic approach to enhance cultural skills is aligned with social feeling and sense of belonging as an important element to underlie the interaction pathway with others’ diverse backgrounds. Such an approach of teaching model could be tr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Conceptions, Perceptions and Intersections of Equity Gaps in Education)
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  • Open Access
1,669 Views
26 Pages

17 June 2026

Within the conceptual framework of the Unified Flexibility & Mindfulness (UFM) model, the current study applied a contextual behavioral science lens to understanding the challenges and dynamics of classroom teaching in the United States. In parti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Psychological Flexibility for Health and Wellbeing)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,730 Views
22 Pages

28 October 2019

The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between teachers’ organizational commitment, job satisfaction and whistleblowing behaviors and to evaluate their contribution to sustainability in education. The study consisted of a total of...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,940 Views
19 Pages

Are Future Teachers Involved in Contributing to and Promoting the Reduction of Massive Waste Generation?

  • María Ángeles García-Fortes,
  • Unai Ortega-Lasuen,
  • Patricia Esteve-Guirao,
  • Oihana Barrutia and ,
  • Ana Ruiz-Navarro,
  • Daniel Zuazagoitia,
  • Magdalena Valverde-Pérez,
  • José Ramón Díez and
  • Isabel Banos-González
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

3 September 2024

Massive waste generation linked to overconsumption is considered one of the most significant socio-ecological issues today, becoming a challenge for health and well-being and a barrier to achieving sustainability. Education is key to raising awarenes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fostering the One Health Approach in Environmental Education: Innovations, Challenges, and Opportunities)
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  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,535 Views
21 Pages

14 April 2023

The objective of this study was to examine the direct and indirect effects of ethical leadership on organizational citizenship behavior while considering job stress, organizational commitment, and job satisfaction as full and partial mediators throug...

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  • Open Access
721 Views
17 Pages

Teachers’ Perceptions of the Relationship Between Teachers’ Organizational Commitment, Effective Teaching Practices, and Students’ Learning Outcomes in the Secondary Schools of Bunir, Pakistan

  • Niaz Ali,
  • Wu Yating,
  • Adekoya Oluwaseun Abiola,
  • Khalid Ahmed and ,
  • Hariharan N. Krishnasamy,
  • Muhammad Niqab and
  • Sameer Babu M
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

30 June 2026

It is well-established that both teacher commitment and the quality of instruction positively influence student achievement. However, the evidence for such constructs and their connections in the context of a developing country such as Pakistan is sc...

(This article belongs to the Topic Constructing and (Re)constructing Social Identities in Educational Contexts: Power, Norms, and Resistance)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,364 Views
13 Pages

16 October 2021

This research arises from the university’s need to contribute to the training of professionals, especially teachers, who, in turn are committed to contribute to a more sustainable and socially just world at the institutions for which they are profess...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Role of Higher Education Institutions for Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,631 Views
23 Pages

27 June 2019

The Turkish Ministry of National Education has been implementing a new management model in the Turkish educational system. The structural features of state-run project schools are being developed with various innovations in terms of management and ed...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,572 Views
12 Pages

16 July 2025

This study explores the perceptions of primary school teachers in Sparta, Greece, regarding toxic leadership behaviors and their impact on job satisfaction (JS) and organizational commitment (OC). The study was motivated by the need to investigate ho...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,409 Views
23 Pages

28 October 2024

Beginning teachers (preservice and novice) must develop a resilient professional identity, yet high early attrition rates indicate the need for additional support in this process. Many attrition studies focus on external factors; few address teacher...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Teachers and Teaching in Teacher Education)
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  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,635 Views
12 Pages

How Can Teachers Be Encouraged to Commit to Sustainability? Evaluation of a Teacher-Training Experience in Spain

  • Mercedes Varela-Losada,
  • Azucena Arias-Correa,
  • Uxío Pérez-Rodríguez and
  • Pedro Vega-Marcote

9 August 2019

The main objective of this study was to design and evaluate an experience for future teachers focused on the participatory search for sustainability through role play so that outcomes related to improving the way they see the world and their commitme...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability in Teacher Education)
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  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,766 Views
18 Pages

22 January 2021

Studies on the adaptation from face-to-face to online teaching during lockdown show the before and after in education that faces the double challenge of promoting digital skills and public access to connectivity and electronic devices in the post-COV...

(This article belongs to the Collection Education, Innovation and Training for Sustainable Development in the Context of COVID-19)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,661 Views
13 Pages

In 2009, all Norwegian 5th–7th graders were allocated 76 h of obligatory physical activity (PA) classes in addition to physical education (PE). The study explores how schools implemented these classes and the relationship with school physical a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Promoting Physical Activity in and through Schools)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,587 Views
18 Pages

Waste Education in Teacher Training: Exploring the Role of Context in Shaping Perceptions and Didactic Approaches

  • María Ángeles García-Fortes,
  • Patricia Esteve-Guirao,
  • Isabel Banos-González,
  • Magdalena Valverde-Pérez and
  • Ana Ruiz-Navarro

12 December 2025

This study explores how 130 future teachers (FTs) perceive and address massive waste generation when it is framed through two socio-environmental contexts: waste export from affluent to vulnerable countries and microplastic pollution in natural envir...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability Education for Recycling: Multidisciplinary Approaches and Innovative Practices)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,867 Views
17 Pages

Comfort in the Role: The Core of Positive Veteran Teachers

  • Sarah Jefferson,
  • Christina Gray and
  • Geoffrey Lowe

11 September 2024

Teacher career trajectory studies have identified a small group of positive veteran teachers who have maintained an ongoing enthusiasm for and commitment to teaching. Research into teacher career trajectory frameworks suggests that comfort in the rol...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Teachers and Teaching in Teacher Education)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,283 Views
25 Pages

A Sociological View on Designing a Sustainable Online Community for K–12 Teachers: A Systematic Review

  • Dabae Lee,
  • Jiyoon Jung,
  • Suhkyung Shin,
  • Anne Otternbreit-Leftwich and
  • Krista Glazewski

22 November 2020

As a way to support teachers’ professional development activities and build communities of practice for teachers, education researchers and practitioners have put considerable effort into building an online learning community for K–12 tea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technology-Enhanced Learning, Open Science and Global Education)
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  • Open Access
3,250 Views
22 Pages

The Autodetermination At School (AAS) hetero-evaluative scale was created and validated in a French teacher population with the aim of quantifying, in an ecological way, the commitment at school of elementary students. After establishing the scale&rs...

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1 Citations
3,206 Views
20 Pages

Influence of School Culture and Organizational Culture on Conflicts: Case of Serbian Primary Schools

  • Igor Kostovski,
  • Dragana Glušac,
  • Srđana Taboroši,
  • Edit Terek Stojanović and ,
  • Branka Janković and
  • Milan Nikolić
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 August 2025

This paper explores how school culture and key organizational culture dimensions, power distance, humane orientation, performance orientation, and in-group collectivism, affect different types of conflict (task, relationship, and process) in primary...

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4 Citations
3,024 Views
9 Pages

The study had four objectives: (a) identifying and characterizing strategies for involving parents of students with SEN (students with special educational needs) in remote education during the COVID-19 pandemic; (b) comparing these strategies with th...

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2,286 Views
18 Pages

19 September 2025

This qualitative study investigates the impact of multigrade classroom arrangements on learners with disabilities in the Harry Gwala District of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Drawing on Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory, the research ex...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Teachers and Teaching in Inclusive Education)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,235 Views
16 Pages

Teachers’ Reporting Attitude Scale for Child Sexual Abuse: An Italian Adaptation

  • Matteo Angelo Fabris,
  • Claudio Longobardi,
  • Sofia Mastrokoukou,
  • Bruno Luiz Avelino Cardoso and
  • Diego Costa Lima

25 January 2026

This study presents an Italian adaptation of the Teachers’ Reporting Attitude Scale for Child Sexual Abuse (TRAS-CSA), aiming to assess teachers’ attitudes towards reporting suspected cases of child sexual abuse (CSA) and to explore the s...

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  • Open Access
61 Citations
15,030 Views
33 Pages

Mid-Career Teachers: A Mixed Methods Scoping Study of Professional Development, Career Progression and Retention

  • Josephine Booth,
  • Mike Coldwell,
  • Lisa-Maria Müller,
  • Emily Perry and
  • James Zuccollo

Globally, there are ongoing problems with teacher retention, leading to a loss of experience and expertise. In policy and research, the emphasis is often on the professional development and retention of early career teachers, whereas teachers in late...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Teachers Matter—Improving Recruitment, Retention and Development of Teachers)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
10,644 Views
21 Pages

Purpose: This study adopted a quantitative design to evaluate a new latent construct, “Parental Academic Commitment (PAC)”, that was composed of parental involvement (PARINVOL) and parents’ expectations of their children’s aca...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Educational Leadership: International Perspectives and Global Innovations)
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  • Open Access
355 Views
23 Pages

14 September 2026

This study examines inclusive early childhood education in China and Türkiye through a comparative qualitative analysis of policy, curriculum, and teacher perspectives. A two-stage research design was employed, combining document analysis of nat...

(This article belongs to the Section Special and Inclusive Education)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,057 Views
15 Pages

Towards Sustainable Development in Education: Implementing a VET System for In-Service Teachers in Albania

  • María-José Vieira,
  • Camino Ferreira,
  • Agustín Rodríguez-Esteban and
  • Javier Vidal

5 August 2021

The Albanian Strategy of Pre-University Education (2014–2020) stated the need to raise the competencies of in-service teachers in the non-university sector by asking Albanian universities to provide Vocational Education and Training (VET). The Erasmu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Evaluation of Sustainable Educational Programs)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,512 Views
10 Pages

24 August 2020

Teaching is a demanding occupation, physically, mentally, and emotionally, that, depending on personal characteristics, can have a negative impact on health and personal wellbeing, which can affect the way professors work and teach in schools. The ai...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): The Challenges of the 2020-2030s for Quality Education)
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  • Open Access
568 Views
26 Pages

Critical thinking (CT) is a core competence that schools are expected to cultivate, yet whether it reaches classrooms depends on teachers’ readiness to teach it. Using an explanatory sequential mixed methods design, we surveyed 312 primary Engl...

(This article belongs to the Section Studies on Cognitive Processes)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,915 Views
16 Pages

2 October 2024

This sequential explanatory mixed-methods study investigated the differences in persistence between students from the Sherman STEM Teacher Scholars Program (STEP), a STEM teacher scholarship and career preparation program, and STEM majors not in the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue STEM Education for All: Breaking Barriers and Building Bridges)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
837 Views
22 Pages

Teachers’ Digital Competencies as a Resource in the Job Demands-Resources Model

  • Till Kaiser,
  • Tobias Koch,
  • Ferdinand Stebner and
  • Christian Reintjes

27 June 2026

Against the backdrop of substantial transformations in the education system, including digitalization and increasing societal pluralization, there is growing attention paid to teachers’ digital competencies and their role within broader school...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue School Well-Being in the Digital Era)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,281 Views
21 Pages

31 October 2024

Teachers in Islamic schools are often required to navigate complex identities. They balance personal and/or school-based religious obligations with contemporary secular-based commitments to meet organisational demands for institutional compliance. Be...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Teacher Education for Islamic Education and Schooling)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
838 Views
24 Pages

4 March 2026

This study addresses a critical gap by examining the specific barriers and demands faced by secondary school teachers who are deeply engaged in climate change education. Using a qualitative design complemented by quantitative descriptive indicators (...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Education: The Role of Innovation)

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