How Working at an Asian University Defined My Parenting Style : An Autoethnographic Study of an EFL Teacher

work-family conflict among female employees at a Malaysian technical university.The results were mixed, showing that supervisor support had little impact on reducing conflicts.This may be because the support provided by supervisors was insufficient in quality or quantity to address work-family issues effectively.Despite research interests in the working parents' professions, there has been limited investigations on single mothers working at universities.This study is significant as there are a number of bread winners who are in the same situation as me.Hence, this research could contribute to the literature, especially on universities and academic departments' awareness on the need to do more to support single mothers who are also educators by providing more flexible work arrangements, and other organizational

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The Journal of AsiaTEFL
Published
2025-06-30
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https://doi.org/10.18823/asiatefl.2025.22.2.17.441
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Multilingual Education and Policy
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How Working at an Asian University Defined My Parenting Style : An Autoethnographic Study of an EFL Teacher

Marlon D. Sipe, Min Feng
The Journal of AsiaTEFL
Multilingual Education and Policy
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How Working at an Asian University Defined My Parenting Style : An Autoethnographic Study of an EFL Teacher

Marlon D. Sipe, Min Feng
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Abstract

work-family conflict among female employees at a Malaysian technical university.The results were mixed, showing that supervisor support had little impact on reducing conflicts.This may be because the support provided by supervisors was insufficient in quality or quantity to address work-family issues effectively.Despite research interests in the working parents' professions, there has been limited investigations on single mothers working at universities.This study is significant as there are a number of bread winners who are in the same situation as me.Hence, this research could contribute to the literature, especially on universities and academic departments' awareness on the need to do more to support single mothers who are also educators by providing more flexible work arrangements, and other organizational

The Journal of AsiaTEFLVol. 22(2)
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Openalex Percentile: Top 79%
Multilingual Education and Policy
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