Rate My Professor Saul Karnovsky

His research centers on teacher wellbeing, emotional experiences in teaching, professional ethics, work conditions, and teacher education, often employing post-structural theory, including Foucault's frameworks, to analyze emotional rules in pre-service teacher education and discourses of wellbeing. Key publications include the co-edited book Teachers' Emotional Experiences: Towards a New Emotional Discourse (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025, with Nick Kelly); "How teacher wellbeing can be cruel: refusing discourses of wellbeing in an online Reddit forum" (British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024, with Brad Gobby); "The teacher wellbeing turn: neuropolitics, education and the psy-complex" (Critical Studies in Education, 2025, with others); "A Foucauldian ethics of positivity in initial teacher education" (Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022, with Brad Gobby and Peter O'Brien); "Moral disengagement and building resilience to violent extremism: An education intervention" (Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2014, with Anne Aly and Elisabeth Taylor, 287 citations); and "‘Beyond Bali’: a transformative education approach for developing community resilience to violent extremism" (Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2017, with others). Karnovsky contributes to public discourse through media commentary on teacher burnout, stress, and retention, influencing discussions on educator welfare in Australia. He is also involved in outreach programs like The Curtin Coaches tutoring initiative (2015).