A Study of intensity of Burnout of Teacher Educators of Teachers’ Training Colleges of Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar
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Burnout- Personal Energy Crisis due to Exhaustion of one’s Adaptation Energy,, Stress- Strain caused by prolonged exposure to Stressor. Emotional Exhaustion- feeling being emotionally over extended and drained by one’s contact with other people, Depersonalisation- development of a negative and cynical attitude,, Personal Accomplishment- negative evaluation of one’s own contribution.Abstract
Burnout as a concept was born in mid 1970s in USA and within a small period of time it becomes almost a catchword. To cope with the situation of stress and burnout steps are needed to ameliorate the general conditions of teacher community vis-à-vis service condition which are awfully inadequate. The stress and burnout problems confronting the teachers can be countered by active participation of teachers through conducting seminars and open discussions where persons of repute from all walks of life could be persuaded to take part and to create necessary environment to mitigate the problems.
It appears to be a response to interpersonal stressors on the job in which an overload of contact with people results in changes in attitudes and behaviours towards them. It is defined as a syndrome of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and reduced sense of personal accomplishment, which can occur among individuals who work with people in some capacity (Maslack Jackson 1984. All these in long term lead to burnout. Whenever such situations arise it is harmful to the person and the institution as well. And this in turn affects the effective functioning of the entire institution.
Psychologists and management theorists have unanimously upheld burnout as a major issue of modern times. Therefore, in the present study an attempt has been made to study the burnout prevalent in the teachers in teacher training institutions.
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