Day / Sachs / Bayer Teachers' Career Trajectories and Work Lives

An Anthology
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-90-481-2358-2
Verlag: Springer-Verlag
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 230 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Day, Christopher

Sachs, Judyth

Bayer, Martin

Brinkkjær, Ulf

Plauborg, Helle

Rolls, Simon

Brinkkjaer, Ulf

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;6
2;Introduction to Teachers’ Career Trajectories;8
3;Chapter 1 Teachers’ Career Trajectories: An Examination of Research;16
3.1;Introduction to the Work of Huberman, Fessler, Sikes and Day;17
3.2;Entering the Profession and the First Years;18
3.3;Established Within the Profession: The Mid-Career;23
3.4;The Final Years;29
3.5;Research into Teachers’ Career Trajectories – What Next?;31
3.6;Conclusion;33
3.7;Notes;34
3.8;References;34
4;Chapter 2 Career Stories as Gateway to Understanding Teacher Development;36
4.1;The Teacher Career from a Narrative–Biographical Perspective;37
4.2;Critical Incidents, Phases and Persons;39
4.3;Personal Interpretative Framework: Self-Understanding and Subjective Educational Theory;45
4.4;Beyond the Idiosyncratic;50
4.5;Notes;51
4.6;References;52
5;Chapter 3 Committed for Life? Variations in Teachers’ Work, Lives and Effectiveness;55
5.1;Introduction;55
5.2;Reform Contexts;55
5.3;Key Questions;57
5.4;Methods;58
5.5;Moderating Factors;59
5.6;Professional Identities: The Emotional Contexts of Teaching;63
5.7;The Influence of School Context;66
5.8;Commitment, Resilience and Effectiveness;67
5.9;Conclusions;71
5.10;Five Core Findings;72
5.11;Notes;74
5.12;References;74
6;Chapter 4 On the Unacknowledged Significance of Teachers’ Habitus and Dispositions;77
6.1;Introduction;77
6.2;Part One;78
6.3;Part Two;89
6.4;Conclusion;94
6.5;Notes;96
6.6;References;96
7;Chapter 5 Teachers’ Professional Learning and the Workplace Curriculum;98
7.1;Introduction;98
7.2;Methods;99
7.3;The Teachers;100
7.4;Teaching: The First 2 Years Within the Profession;102
7.5;Teaching: After 8 Years Within the Profession;108
7.6;Eight Years of Teaching: A Summary;110
7.7;Teachers’ Views on Colleagues: The First 2 Years Within the Profession;111
7.8;Teachers’ Views on Colleagues: After 8 Years Within the Profession;115
7.9;Changing Views on Colleagues: A Summary;117
7.10;Conclusion: Two Different Career Trajectories;117
7.11;Perspectives;119
7.12;References;120
8;Chapter 6 Careers Under Stress: Teacher Adaptations at a Time of Intensive Reform;121
8.1;Introduction: Teacher Careers;121
8.2;Teacher Stress;122
8.3;Methods;123
8.4;Change Views of Careers;124
8.5;Teacher Adaptations;126
8.6;Conclusion;134
8.7;Note;136
8.8;References;136
9;Postscript to ‘Careers Under Stress: Teacher Adaptations at a Time of Intensive Reform’;140
10;Research Methods;140
11;Turning to Teaching: New Developments in Professional and Teacher Careers;142
12;References;144
13;Chapter 7 The Careers of Urban Teachers: A Synthesis of Findings from UCLA’s Longitudinal Study of Urban Educators;146
13.1;Part One: UCLA’s Longitudinal Study of Urban Educators, 2000–2007;147
13.2;Part Two: Promising Policy Responses;158
13.3;Notes;160
13.4;References;160
14;Chapter 8 Teacher Gender and Career Patterns;162
14.1;Introduction;162
14.2;Gendered Careers in Teaching;163
14.3;Gendered Career Patterns in Primary Teaching in England and Wales;164
14.4;Social Factors;168
14.5;Teaching as a Career Choice;170
14.6;Roles and Responsibilities;171
14.7;Career Expectations and Pathways;175
14.8;Conclusions;177
14.9;References;178
15;Chapter 9 Regenerating Teachers;182
16;Research Design;185