The New Lives of Teachers

ISBN-13: 9780415484596 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 224 str.

Christopher Day;Qing Gu

Opis

The (New) Lives of Teachers examines variations in teachers’ identify, commitment and resilience across the span of their professional lives of primary and secondary school teachers in different school contexts. Its theoretical conception builds on Huberman’s classic study of teachers’ lives "The Lives of Teachers". However, the research on which it is based goes further in probing not only teachers’ lives but also the ways in which they manage variations in different professional life phases and in different life and work ‘scenarios’ which challenge their sense of positive professional identify, well-being and effectiveness.

This book, The (New) Lives of Teachers complements and extends Huberman’s seminal work on the lives of teachers by providing a ‘new’ evidence-based conceptual framework to investigate and understand teachers’ work and lives in contemporary contexts of teaching. It demonstrates clearly that it is the relative success with which teachers manage various personal, work and external policy challenges which is a key factor in the satisfaction, commitment, well-being and effectiveness of teachers in different contexts and at different times in their work and lives and discusses the implications for teaching quality and teacher retention. The positive and negative influences upon career and professional development and the influences of school leadership, culture, colleagues and conditions are profound and relate directly to teacher retention and the work-life balance agenda.

This book’s readership will include teachers, teachers’ associations, policy makers, school leaders, Local Authority Advisers and/or Inspectors and teacher educators (pre and in-service). The book will have an international appeal since there is nothing else on the market of this kind or quality, andthe book is likely to be in demand as a generic text in PGCE, MA and EdD courses.

Spis treści

@contents:  Introduction Part 1: The Contexts of Teaching  1. The New Teaching Environments  2/ The Person in the Professional: Learning, Identity and Emotional Wellbeing  Part 2: The Professional Lives of Teachers  3. Critical Influences  4. Schools Matter: Portraits of Beginning Teachers  5. Managing Tensions and Transitions in the Middle Years of Teaching: Teachers at the Crossroads  6. Veteran Teachers: Sustaining Commitment, Exercising Resilience  Part 3: Conditions for Success  7. Teacher Commitment: A Necessary Condition for Success?  8. Leadership Effects  9. Resilience Counts  10. Teachers Who Make A Difference: New Lives, Old Truths