2024 Volume 75 Issue 4 Pages 147-157
The workload of annual events in nursery schools is a factor that can lead childcare teachers to leave their occupations. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the policies of annual event planning in the nursery school division of the local government, and the workload and stress of childcare teachers in public nursery schools. The survey covered 299 childcare teachers.
When comparing CBC, which had previously changed its childcare and annual event plans before the Covid-19 pandemic, and CSC, which has changed theirs since then, childcare workers in CBC had significantly lower psychological burdens for annual events and overtime work. The frequency of overtime work and taking work home was also lower for CBC. The results suggest that, as in the case of CBC, changing childcare and annual event plans can reduce the psychological burden of childcare teachers.
