The meaning of work from teachers’ perspectives: A qualitative inquiry in junior high schools

Open Access

Issue		SHS Web Conf. Volume 224, 2025 4^th International Conference of Applied Psychology on Humanity (ICAP-H 2025)


Article Number		05004
Number of page(s)		9
Section		Psychological in Industrial and Organizational (I/O) Contexts
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202522405004
Published online		05 November 2025

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