Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Jessie Tinoco

Date

2021

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Education

Department

Education

Committee Chair

Wendy Griswold

Committee Member

Shelly Counsell

Committee Member

Ronald Platt

Committee Member

William Akey

Abstract

The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological qualitative study was to investigate how early childhood care (ECCE) professionals make sense of their lived experiences working in an ECCE Department of Defense (DoD) program in the Southern United States. In this study, I incorporated Herzbergs two-factor theory of motivation to explore the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that play a role in an ECCE professionals decision to remain in their job. The central research question focused on the lived experiences of the participants, each of whom had 5 or more years of experience in the ECCE profession. Three themes emerged from the study: teaching is divinely inspired, program structure as a determinant of success, and healthy work environments. Overall, these themes indicate that intrinsic motivations played a more prominent role than extrinsic factors such as pay and benefits in an ECCE professionals choice to stay in their professional over the long term.

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Data is provided by the student.

Library Comment

Dissertation or thesis originally submitted to ProQuest

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