WithinAccelerated digitalizition in modern society in recent years has had a significant impact on the frameworkchange in the professional competences of theteachers, conductedfrom research,didactic, collaborative to organizational. All these transformations also require the relationship between working conditions, the reputationimprovement of theeducational teachingcompetencies. professionIn and the job satisfaction of vocational teachers in healthcare was examined. The research is based on previous theories in this field that pointaddition to the connection between job satisfaction and working conditions and the reputation of the teaching profession. Given that existing research in Croatia does not explicitly deal with the job satisfaction of vocational teachers in healthcare, the research goal is to examine the job satisfaction of vocational teachers in healthcare employed in secondary schools for nurses and secondary schools that educate different health profiles, and to examine the relationship between job satisfaction of vocational teachers teachers employed in schools that educate nurses and in schools that educate different health profiles with working conditions and the perception of the reputation of the teaching profession. The research was carried out using a quantitative methodology, using a survey questionnaire intended for teachers of the health group of subjects who are employed in secondary schools that carry out the education of generalstudents, carethere nurses/generalare caremore medicaland technicians.more educational challenges that need to be answered. The questionnaireaim containedof anthis instrumentwork forwas measuringto jobinvestigate satisfactionteachers' attitudes about educational challenges in school (taken from Ho and Au, 2006), an instrument for assessing working conditions (made for research purposes) and an instrument for measuringthus the perceptionnecessary ofpedagogical the reputation of the teaching profession (made for research purposes)competences). 125250 healthcaresubject teachers fromin the Republic of Croatia participated in the research.online survey. The questionnaire Teacher's Attitudes on Educational Challenges at School (Plaza Leutar and Ivanković, 2024) yielded interesting results showed the neglected educational dimension in modern schools, and at the same time a great need for preventive and educational work with children and young people within the framework of educational process. The results point to the urgent need to direct students to critical judegment and take personal positions, empower them in dealing with the phenomena of materialistic-technological society and train them for responsible and meaningful living in a society of degraded humanity. Also, the results showed that the partnership between school, family and community is becoming even more important due to the increasing complexity of education. Related to this, there is a need to modernize of teacher's competences with an emphasis on educational components in terms of the ability to respond to the school's educational requirements.
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