The Effect of the School Internal Environment of Secondary Education on Daily Work of Teaching Staff: A Systemic Approach

Siatira Stavroula, Sdrolias Labros, Aspridis Georgios, Papadimopoulos Ioannis
2014 Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences  
This article focuses on exploring the School Internal Environment and on identifying disorders that appear in the workplace of the Teaching Staff of Secondary Education, in order to record the effects of these problems in natural (physical) and mental balance and health of the teachers. It is based on a sample of 188 teachers, 65 men (34.6%) and 123 women (65.4%) who work in High in their daily work. The results demonstrate especially that the Head Teachers' institutional weakness to control
more » ... students' behaviour and the school internal physical and psychological climate affect negatively the teachers' daily work. On the other hand, especially the development of educational projects, the location (site of installation) of the school unit, the Head teachers' incentive policy and both the Head teachers' and the colleagues' behaviour affect positively the teachers' daily work. Finally, the findings shed light on the factors that can contribute to the creation of necessary conditions which could improve the working environment of the Teaching Staff of Secondary Education. impact of educational projects to teachers is offered for investigation. Finally, mainly the location of schools, the close environment from the urban center and then the ergonomic of the school buildings are a wide field of research on regarding the highlighting of positive or negative consequences experienced by the living material of them.
doi:10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n13p244 fatcat:rzqw7ju4qjdqrmhyhnsovrmm5q