1st Edition

Decoding Teacher Well-being in Rural China Implications to Global Contexts

By Yipeng Tang Copyright 2025
140 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

140 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

140 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book primarily investigates the factors influencing rural teacher well-being in China. By jointly using international comparable data from Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) as well as China’s survey data from 29 counties of ten provinces in the mainland, this book not only illustrates the current status and influencing factors of rural teacher well-being in 43 education... Read more

1 Introduction: Theorizing rural teacher well-being  2 Rural teacher well-being around the world  3 The urban-rural differences of teacher well-being in China: An analysis with TALIS Shanghai data  4 Individual factors and rural teacher well-being in China  5 School factors and rural teacher well-being in China  6 Community factors and rural teacher well-being in China  7 Conclusion: Reflecting on the Chinese rural teacher well-being from an international and policy perspective

Biography

Yipeng Tang is an associate professor at the Department of Education and a research fellow at the Institute of Schooling Reform and Development, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. His research was funded by the National Social Science Fund of China and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. His current research interests include teacher subjective well-being and student development.