EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SUSTAINABLE EDUCATION, TEACHER CAREER STAGES AND TEACHER CAREER MANAGEMENT

Abstract

This research examines how sustainable education correlates with teacher career stages and career management. This quantitative research applies SEM Smart PLS and Path analysis to analyse the data. The data are collected from a 5-Likert scale questionnaire comprising five elements of sustainable education, five elements of teacher career stages and seven elements of career management. All these elements are first validated before being distributed online through Google Forms. There are 320 public elementary school teachers involved as participants voluntarily in this study. The results of data analysis reveal that sustainable education is significantly and positively associated with both teacher career stages and career management. These findings give crucial insights to stakeholders of the institutions on how important teacher career stages and career management are in the development of teacher professionalism, which in turn affects the quality of sustainable education.