Educational researchers contend that high-quality, sustaining teachers are critical to student success. However, few policymakers agree on the best way to improve teacher quality. Researchers outside of education found associations between employee engagement and job performance, which suggests that improving teacher work engagement may potentially improve teacher productivity. Engagement theories framed this correlational study; Kahn's engagement theory, Spector's job satisfaction theory and Meyer and Allen's organizational commitment theory. These theories contributed to examining relationships between job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and teacher work engagement. Additionally, this study further examined how these relationships mediated teacher demographics ( gender, age, educational level, and years of experience). Approximately 26 New York City secondary school teachers from five schools responded to a survey. Regression analysis showed no significant results between any of the variables; however, the descriptive analysis showed that teachers' satisfaction came from having competent supervision, their commitment was due to a sense of obligation to their schools, and their engagement was related to how absorbing they found their work. Results based on a response rate of less than 1%, suggests that due to low power, generalization among this population of teachers could not be established. Therefore, further study of how teachers engage with their work is warranted. Implications for social change are that programs that improve the quality of teacher supervisors or give teachers rewards regarding absorbing and engaging work assignments might improve teacher productivity and higher student achievement.

La presente investigación tiene como objetivo analizar la relación entre el engagement y las estrategias de afrontamiento en estudiantes de medicina de una universidad privada de Lima, de modo que se pueda descubrir la relación entre estas dos variables, y qué estrategias de afrontamiento se encuentran positivamente relacionadas con el engagement. La muestra está conformada por 137 participantes, y se hizo de modo no probabilístico e intencional. El 59.9% de la muestra son mujeres y el 39.4% hombres, cuyas edades oscilan entre 15 y 34 años, siendo la media 19.53 años y el 20.4% de 19 años. En cuanto al ciclo de estudios oscilan entre 1 y séptimo ciclo, siendo el 48.9% del tercer ciclo. Luego del análisis estadístico de los datos se encontró que existe una correlación positiva y significativa entre las estrategias de afrontamiento Búsqueda de apoyo social, Actitud positiva y proactiva, y evitación con el engagement. / This research purpose is to analyze the relationship between engagement and coping strategies as well as to discover if there exist coping strategies that are positively related to this concept, in medical students from a private university of Lima-Perú. The sample of the research was made up of 137 participants and was done in a non-probabilistic and intentional way, 59.9% of the sample was women and 39.4% were men, all of them between 34 and 15 years old. The average age was 19.53 years old and 20.4% was 19 years old. All of the participants were between first and seventh semester, being the 48.9% of them on the third. All data was analyzed with the SPSS program. After the statistical analysis it was found that there is a positive and significant correlation between the coping strategies search for social support, positive and proactive attitude, and the avoidance with engagement. / Tesis

Despite calls for concerted, two-way engagement and for the development of reciprocal partnerships between institutions of higher education (IHE's) and their communities, IHE's continue to implement a disparate menu of activities that prove largely ineffective at addressing society's most challenging social and environmental problems. A relatively new conception of engagement lays out a framework by which IHE's engage with communities in democratic ways. Democratic engagement values inclusive, reciprocal problem-oriented work that brings together university and community stakeholders as co-generators of knowledge and solutions. The resulting democratically engaged partnerships position diverse members to take on roles as collaborators and problem solvers. They are mutually transformed through the processes of reciprocation, power diffusion, and knowledge generation. <br>How these democratically oriented roles and processes emerge and come to be enacted is unknown. Neither the literature on democratic engagement nor that on community-university partnerships addresses this gap. This dissertation study purposefully selected a case of community-university partnership that has a high degree of democratic engagement. Through interviews, observation, and document review, qualitative evidence was collected of the ways in which the roles and processes of democratically engaged partnerships emerged and were enacted. Atlas.ti 6.2 was used to code and retrieve themes related to democratic and technocratic engagement, stakeholder roles and processes, and the emergence and application of roles and processes. <br>Understanding how democratically oriented roles and processes emerge and are adopted is critical to building democratically engaged partnerships that support systems of democratic engagement. If we do not know how to be democratic within our partnerships, and if we cannot teach others, we will not be able to answer the calls for more purposeful, reciprocal engagement with our communities. / School of Education; / Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program for Education Leaders (IDPEL) / EdD; / Dissertation;

Selon maints observateurs, les trente dernières années ont été marquées par un important déclin de l'engagement social et politique. Or, les sociétés occidentales ont subi, au cours de cette période, des transformations structurelles et communicationnelles importantes qui viennent redéfinir les rapports et les repères sociaux. Le présent mémoire a pour objet, dans un premier temps, de redéfinir les phénomènes d'engagement et de désengagement, tant dans la sphère publique que dans la sphère privée, en les plaçant dans le contexte socio-historique contemporain. Ensuite, nous nous attarderons à l'art engagé, à son rôle social et à son évolution, à travers l'exemple du cinéma engagé. Notre démarche de recherche culminera en un scénario de court-métrage, qui réenracinera les éléments de réflexion théorique dans un contexte concret et contemporain. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Engagement, Idéologies, Individualisme, Acteur Changement, Cinéma.

Texte remanié de: Th. doct.--Sci. économ. et soc.--Genève--Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales, 2004. / Bibliogr. p. 197-211.

The purpose of this study is to more clearly understand what student' experience while involved in service-learning courses. Moreover, I sought to identify the relationships among service-learning, the outcomes typically attributed to it, and student engagement according to Naturalistic Inquiry methodology (Lincoln & Guba, 1985) and quantitative data from the Australasian Survey of Student Engagement (2009-2010) in two different upper-division courses at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand during the second semester of the 2009 academic year. One class approached service-learning in an addendum/add-on type of approach (Approach I service-learning), while the other course used a more fully-integrated approach (Approach II service-learning). The theoretical framework offered by the philosophy of experiential education (Dewey) and the theories of experiential learning (Kolb), transformative learning (Mezirow), and student engagement (Kuh) combine to serve as the lens through which service-learning was initially viewed in this study. This framework provided the initial structure by which this study was facilitated and the relationship between service-learning and its typically attributed outcomes could be observed and better understood within a New Zealand tertiary environment. The student experiences within Approach I and II service-learning served as sources for pursuing a greater level of sophistication and understanding of how these experiences influence the relationships of service-learning and ultimately how service-learning influences student engagement. Such an investigation is relevant to New Zealand tertiary teachers, researchers, and leaders, who are interested in creating conditions that engage students in learning while developing students personally and involving them within the local community. For transferability purposes, the goal of this study is to provide enough “thick description” (Lincoln & Guba, 1985, p. 125) in the case of each approach to service-learning so that educators from New Zealand and the rest of the world can find meaning, value, and direction. Quantitative findings from this study clearly demonstrated a statistically significant shift in student engagement benchmarks in both approaches to service-learning (3 of 6 AUSSE benchmarks in Approach I service-learning and 6 of 6 AUSSE benchmarks in Approach II service-learning). Qualitative data provided the means to suggest why these significant shifts occurred and illuminated the complexity of the student experience within service-learning environments. Qualitatively, both approaches to service-learning shifted the context of what it meant to be a student in a classroom. The following themes symbolize the different experiences and demonstrate ways teachers can best engage both eager and reluctant learners: different experiences-providing opportunities for growth; consistently being a part of something-internal/external to university; active-learning through experiencing and thinking for yourself; worthwhile, intrinsic-due to helping community organisations. Considering the effects of service-learning on engagement have been relatively un-researched in New Zealand higher education and further inquiry into the pedagogical consequences has been warranted, the implications may provide insight into the development of service-learning in higher education for New Zealand, Australasia, and potentially, the world.

Devant les exigences et la complexité toujours plus grande du travail contemporain, les organisations ont besoin de travailleurs engagés pour faire face aux défis de taille liés à cette réalité (Bakker & Leiter, 2010). Or, plusieurs d’entre eux semblent vivre difficilement leur engagement au travail. Par exemple, en 2011, près de 20 % des travailleurs québécois ressentaient de la détresse psychologique, détresse associée le plus souvent à des conditions difficiles au travail (Vézina et al., 2011). Dans le domaine de l'éducation, et particulièrement au niveau de l’enseignement primaire, cette réalité est bien présente. En effet, depuis les dernières années, le renouvellement constant des pratiques enseignantes et les demandes grandissantes de toutes parts semblent exercer une pression importante sur les enseignants du primaire (Femandes & Da Rocha, 2009). Ce phénomène s’accompagne de statistiques inquiétantes relativement à l’épuisement professionnel et à l’intention de quitter la profession (Houlfort & Sauvé, 2010). Afin de mieux comprendre le bien-être lacunaire des enseignants, et plus particulièrement ceux du primaire, il semble pertinent de se pencher sur l'étude de l'engagement professionnel, variable associée au fonctionnement optimal des organisations, mais aussi des individus (Bakker & Demerouti, 2008). À cet effet, la présente thèse vise deux objectifs principaux par le biais de deux articles distincts. Le premier article a comme objectif de présenter une recension des écrits existants sur l’engagement professionnel et ses déficits et excès, et de proposer des précisions quant à la conceptualisation de ces variables, en présentant conjointement le modèle multimodal de l’engagement professionnel et certains de ses avantages. De plus, il démontre comment ce modèle offr une nouvelle avenue pour les études s’intéressant à la relation entre l’engagement au travail et le bien-être personnel. Le deuxième article a comme visée d’étudier le lien unissant l’engagement, le sous-engagement et le surengagement professionnels ainsi que leurs composantes, et divers indicateurs du bien-être auprès de 223 enseignants du primaire québécois. Des analyses de régression linéaires et hiérarchiques ont révélé que l’engagement optimal était lié positivement à des indicateurs positifs et lié négativement à des indicateurs négatifs du bien-être. Des associations inverses ont également été obtenues pour le sous-engagement et le surengagement. Finalement, les résultats ont mis en lumière le rôle respectif et distinct des composantes des trois modes d’engagement dans leur association avec le bien-être personnel. La discussion générale porte sur les contributions conceptuelles de la thèse, sur des retombées possibles des résultats dans le domaine de l’éducation ainsi que sur des implications pratiques qui en découlent.

Employee engagement is a relatively new construct in academic literature and an increasingly popular idea in practice. Proponents of employee engagement claim a strong positive relationship between engagement and business success, both at the firm and individual levels, and outcomes including retention, productivity, profitability, and customer loyalty and satisfaction. Despite numerous academic and practitioner publications on employee engagement, no consistently-accepted conceptualization of the construct or its sub-dimensions exists, and there is an ongoing debate regarding whether the employee engagement construct is a new idea or a re-hashing of old ideas. Similarly, no consistently-accepted tool to measure employee engagement exists. In the absence of consistent conceptualization and measurement, relationships between employee engagement and its antecedents and outcomes cannot be empirically tested. Drawing on prior literature and practitioner interviews, the present study defines employee engagement as an attitude towards one’s work at one’s company, comprising feelings of vigor, dedication, and absorption; cognitive appraisals of psychological empowerment; and motivation to act, both within role and extra role, in the service of the organization’s goals. In addition, the present study validates a self-report instrument to measure this conceptualization of employee engagement, using construct and scale validation procedures accepted in marketing and information systems literature.

Despite calls for concerted, two-way engagement and for the development of reciprocal partnerships between institutions of higher education (IHE's) and their communities, IHE's continue to implement a disparate menu of activities that prove largely ineffective at addressing society's most challenging social and environmental problems. A relatively new conception of engagement lays out a framework by which IHE's engage with communities in democratic ways. Democratic engagement values inclusive, reciprocal problem-oriented work that brings together university and community stakeholders as co-generators of knowledge and solutions. The resulting democratically engaged partnerships position diverse members to take on roles as collaborators and problem solvers. They are mutually transformed through the processes of reciprocation, power diffusion, and knowledge generation. <br>How these democratically oriented roles and processes emerge and come to be enacted is unknown. Neither the literature on democratic engagement nor that on community-university partnerships addresses this gap. This dissertation study purposefully selected a case of community-university partnership that has a high degree of democratic engagement. Through interviews, observation, and document review, qualitative evidence was collected of the ways in which the roles and processes of democratically engaged partnerships emerged and were enacted. Atlas.ti 6.2 was used to code and retrieve themes related to democratic and technocratic engagement, stakeholder roles and processes, and the emergence and application of roles and processes. <br>Understanding how democratically oriented roles and processes emerge and are adopted is critical to building democratically engaged partnerships that support systems of democratic engagement. If we do not know how to be democratic within our partnerships, and if we cannot teach others, we will not be able to answer the calls for more purposeful, reciprocal engagement with our communities. / School of Education / Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program for Education Leaders (IDPEL) / EdD / Dissertation

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