BURNOUT AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS AND RESPONSIBLE POTENTIAL SOURCES AND SYMPTOMS - A CRITICAL ANALYSIS

This paper focused on the comparison of potential sources and symptoms experiencing by government and private managed school teachers which leads to the professional burnout. Also this paper helps to the researchers to find different sources and symptoms responsible for the burnout among secondary school teachers in Khurdha district. Secondary school teachers are overburdened, engaged in non - teaching activities as well as less paid and posted on contractual basis in no convence areas of Khurdha district. Government is silently promoting them as ‘Money Saving Approach’ in current education system. Secondary teacher’s agitation throughout the Odisha indicated towards the serious psycho - social problems among teachers community. Hence, the attempt is made to present the current position of burnout in secondary schools of K hurdha district and the responsible sources and the outcome symptoms. Therefore, the present study conducted on the sample of 250 secondary teachers (125 from govt. Schools and 125 from private managed schools) of khurdha District. To measure the Burnout l evel among teachers as well as responsible sources and symptoms which leads to professional burnout among secondary school teachers, Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) Educational Survey was used as a tool.