Theses and Dissertations Collection

This three-article dissertation presents a perspective of K–12 educator advocacy for the education profession within the context of the United States. Each article involves educators’ perceptions of advocacy for the education profession. The first article is a systematic scoping review. This article analyzes the literature written on educator advocacy, which includes information on teacher perceptions and attitudes. The second article, a phenomenological study, qualitatively explores K–12 education union leaders’ perceptions of advocacy for the education profession. The final article quantitatively investigates K–12 educators’ individual interest in advocacy for the education profession by developing an instrument to measure this construct.Keywords: advocacy, education, education profession, educator advocacy, EFA, scoping review, survey development, systematic review, textual narrative synthesis, union