Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies 

About: Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Higher education & Primary education. It has an ISSN identifier of 1024-5375. Over the lifetime, 95 publications have been published receiving 704 citations.

Job satisfaction, stress and coping strategies among Moroccan high school teachers

Abstract: Using 'a self-report questionnaire, d picture of stress, job satisfaction and coping strategies among a sample of 153 Moroccan 'high school teachers is established. Results of the study showed that 45% of teachers were satisfied with their job. When specific facets of job satisfaction were examine(l, teachers were most satisfied with the relationship they established with students and colleagues and we~e least satisfied with their social status. Results also revealed that over half of teachers reported high levels of stress and that stress and job satisfaction were negatively correlated. When teachers rated the intensity andfrequency of 18 stress items, the two measures produced similar results. A principal components analysis was carried out on the stress items, and four factors were extracted: currtculum-related problems, student-related problems, classroom-related problems and work overload. A factor analysis of the 16 coping strategies produced four factors, labelled direct action, mental action, emotional action and physical ':lction.

What Influences Students To Choose the Elementary Education Major: The Case of Cyprus.

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to identify and compare the factors that have motivated third and fourth year students at the University of Cyprus to choose the elementary school teaching profession. The sample consisted of 176 students that were studying elementary education during the Fall of 1995. The questionnaire was administered to all students that were enrolled in cel1ain elementary education classes which were selected randomly. Responses to the questionnaire items were lactaTed using the principal components analysis with varimax rotation. Six/actors were retained and they accounted/or 63.3 percent a/the variance. The first factor was accounted for 18.3 percent of the variance in the six factor solution. Items in this factor with loadings greater than 0.50 concerned the students' ideas about: love of teaching, love of the teaching / learning process, love of working with young children, and inbom talent for teaching. This/actor was called 'internal motives'. The second/actor accounted for 15.3 percent of the variance and included items describing vacations, immediate employment, job possibilities, secureJob. andfringe benefits, and was called 'job benefits'. The third factor accounted for 9.7 percent of the variance and was called 'status of the profession'. The fourth factor accounted for 8.3 percent of the variance and was called 'relatives' influences'. The fifth and sixth factor accounted for 6.4 and 5.3 per.cent of the variance respectively and were called 'extemal motives' and 'teacher influence'.

Changing Boundaries in Israeli Higher Education.

Abstract: This paper analyses the main changes that took place in the Israeli higher education system in the last dec~des, and accounts for the reconstruction of its external and internal boundaries. It also provides a conceptual JramewQrk for comparing national higher education systems/rom a comparative perspective. The paper examines the developments that characterise the restructuring of the Israeli higher education from an international comparative outlook, and relates to the following parameters: (a) expansion in size; (b) diversification of the higher education institutions; (c) the emergence of new academic fields of study; (d) the upgrade of many professions and occupations to an academic status; (e) the redefinition of graduate degrees; (f) the impact of the new information technologies on shaping academic environments; and (g) the influence of the globalisation and internationalisation trends on the development of national higher education systems.