Into The Void, Or Teachers’ Vulnerability and Lack of Protection as The Paramount Factor in Turning Teaching Menacing and Undesirable

Abstract Book of the 10th World Conference on Research in Education

Year: 2026

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Into The Void, Or Teachers’ Vulnerability and Lack of Protection as The Paramount Factor in Turning Teaching Menacing and Undesirable

Kristian Pérez Zurutuza

ABSTRACT:

Teaching and Education have always been considered the backbone of a healthy and prosperous society. Nonetheless, recent years display teaching as an undesirable profession featured by teachers’ burning-out, anxiety, depression, or psychological disorders that lead to increasingly higher abandonment rates. Such phenomena occur in steadily younger teachers who, alongside experienced teachers close to retirement, feel teaching is greatly influenced by gender-based or ideologically and politically biased agendas that make teachers undergo vulnerability and a lack of protection that makes them feel at severe risk. This study examines the various facets of this reality, offering insight into why the perception of teaching and Education as undesirable and threatening has spread across many countries, becoming a globalized peril for future generations.

Keywords: Education and Agendas, Teachers’ Abandonment, Teachers’ Beliefs and Perceptions, Teachers’ Vulnerability, Teaching and Education