Teachers' Career Trajectories and Work Lives (eBook)

Martin Bayer, Ulf Brinkkjaer, Helle Plauborg, Simon Rolls (Herausgeber)

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2009
VI, 230 Seiten
Springer Netherland (Verlag)
978-90-481-2358-2 (ISBN)

Infos

The working and career lives of teachers have changed radically over the last two decades. Reforms have turned education into a commodity and pupils into 'consumers'. Yet not since 1992 has there been a comprehensive overview of research findings on teachers' working lives. This anthology plugs the gap by collecting various scholarly contributions and perspectives on teachers' career trajectories and work lives.

The material includes an introduction to previous research within the field, presents a range of contemporary research and offers suggestions as to what lies ahead. Among the contributors are leading educational academics who describe a variety of national contexts, illustrating how problems and challenges relating to the teaching profession manifest themselves and are tackled in different countries.

The anthology also shows just how many aspects of teachers' career trajectories and work lives transcend national boundaries. Common international themes include stronger ties between education and the economy, and a growing importance placed on how students' skills relate to the perceived needs of the labour market. There is also a greater degree of political interference in curriculum goals and processes, and an expanding obsession with evaluation.

In many countries, a whole generation of teachers are reaching retirement age, 'changing the guard' with a crop of new young recruits who are ever harder to attract. At a time when there is an increasing focus on issues such as teacher recruitment, retention and professional development, this anthology offers insight and inspiration to teacher educators and educational policy makers as well as to current and prospective teachers. It also aims at encouraging research into the field of teachers' working lives.

Inhalt

Contents 6
Introduction to Teachers’ Career Trajectories 8
Chapter 1 Teachers’ Career Trajectories: An Examination of Research 16
Introduction to the Work of Huberman, Fessler, Sikes and Day 17
Entering the Profession and the First Years 18
Established Within the Profession: The Mid-Career 23
The Final Years 29
Research into Teachers’ Career Trajectories – What Next? 31
Conclusion 33
Notes 34
References 34
Chapter 2 Career Stories as Gateway to Understanding Teacher Development 36
The Teacher Career from a Narrative–Biographical Perspective 37
Critical Incidents, Phases and Persons 39
Personal Interpretative Framework: Self-Understanding and Subjective Educational Theory 45
Beyond the Idiosyncratic 50
Notes 51
References 52
Chapter 3 Committed for Life? Variations in Teachers’ Work, Lives and Effectiveness 55
Introduction 55
Reform Contexts 55
Key Questions 57
Methods 58
Moderating Factors 59
Professional Identities: The Emotional Contexts of Teaching 63
The Influence of School Context 66
Commitment, Resilience and Effectiveness 67
Conclusions 71
Five Core Findings 72
Notes 74
References 74
Chapter 4 On the Unacknowledged Significance of Teachers’ Habitus and Dispositions 77
Introduction 77
Part One 78
Part Two 89
Conclusion 94
Notes 96
References 96
Chapter 5 Teachers’ Professional Learning and the Workplace Curriculum 98
Introduction 98
Methods 99
The Teachers 100
Teaching: The First 2 Years Within the Profession 102
Teaching: After 8 Years Within the Profession 108
Eight Years of Teaching: A Summary 110
Teachers’ Views on Colleagues: The First 2 Years Within the Profession 111
Teachers’ Views on Colleagues: After 8 Years Within the Profession 115
Changing Views on Colleagues: A Summary 117
Conclusion: Two Different Career Trajectories 117
Perspectives 119
References 120
Chapter 6 Careers Under Stress: Teacher Adaptations at a Time of Intensive Reform 121
Introduction: Teacher Careers 121
Teacher Stress 122
Methods 123
Change Views of Careers 124
Teacher Adaptations 126
Conclusion 134
Note 136
References 136
Postscript to ‘Careers Under Stress: Teacher Adaptations at a Time of Intensive Reform’ 140
Research Methods 140
Turning to Teaching: New Developments in Professional and Teacher Careers 142
References 144
Chapter 7 The Careers of Urban Teachers: A Synthesis of Findings from UCLA’s Longitudinal Study of Urban Educators 146
Part One: UCLA’s Longitudinal Study of Urban Educators, 2000–2007 147
Part Two: Promising Policy Responses 158
Notes 160
References 160
Chapter 8 Teacher Gender and Career Patterns 162
Introduction 162
Gendered Careers in Teaching 163
Gendered Career Patterns in Primary Teaching in England and Wales 164
Social Factors 168
Teaching as a Career Choice 170
Roles and Responsibilities 171
Career Expectations and Pathways 175
Conclusions 177
References 178
Chapter 9 Regenerating Teachers 182
Research Design 185

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.6.2009
• Reihe/Serie: Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education
• Reihe/Serie: Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education
• Zusatzinfo: VI, 230 p.
• Verlagsort: Dordrecht
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Schlagworte: Curriculum • Education • Evaluation • professional development • professional knowledge • teacher recruitment • teachers’ career paths
• ISBN-10: 90-481-2358-5 / 9048123585
• ISBN-13: 978-90-481-2358-2 / 9789048123582