Educator Wellbeing with Dr Saul Karnovsky

WAIER on the Wire hosts Jette Oksis and Dr Paul Gardner, had the opportunity to hear from Dr Saul Karnovsky, and gain powerful insights into Western Australian teacher voice. We value all educators and this episode is a BIG conversation about a BIG issue.

In this episode Saul shares his research and we discuss the challenges in preparing, supporting and retaining educators who face numerous challenges in and outside the classroom. We hope this episode sheds some light into the need for all of us to be able to be authentic professionals with a sense of agency and support, to better enhance our collective professional wellbeing.

Dr Saul Karnovsky and Dr Brad Gobby's research is available via Open Access.

Karnovsky, S., & Gobby, B. (2024). How teacher wellbeing can be cruel: refusing discourses of wellbeing in an online Reddit forum. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2024.2312805

If you get to the end and would like to attend the WAIER forum, we shared an incorrect date. Please join us at University of Notre Dame on 17 August 2024. Head to the WAIER website for Forum and Membership details.