#029: How healthy are our teachers?

In many ways the Covid pandemic functioned as an amplifier,
showing us already existing deficits all the more poignantly. In
this episode of “Hör-Saal: 15 minutes of research” – the first
one to be recorded in English entirely – we focus on teachers and
their physical and mental health. Both have been challenged
during the pandemic, as many of them struggled to maintain a
balanced relationship between their jobs and their private lives.


Astrid Mairitsch and Sonja Babic are PhD candidates at the
“Fachdidaktik Anglistik” of the University of Graz. They present
to us their findings about teacher well-being before and during
the pandemic. Moreover, they explain why a considerable amount of
the teachers polled valued a good relationship with their
students as a personal resource of strength.