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Author Day, Chris

Title The New Lives of Teachers
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (241 pages)
Series Teacher Quality and School Development
Teacher Quality and School Development
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Part I: The contexts of teaching; Chapter 1: The new teaching environments; Chapter 2: The person in the professional: Learning, identity and emotional wellbeing; Part II: The professional lives of teachers; Chapter 3: Critical influences on teachers' professional lives; Chapter 4: Portraits of beginning teachers: Schools matter; Chapter 5: Managing tensions and transitions in the middle years of teaching: Teachers at the crossroads
Chapter 6: Veteran teachers: Sustaining commitment, exercising resiliencePart III: Conditions for success; Chapter 7: Teacher commitment: A necessary condition for success?; Chapter 8: Leadership effects; Chapter 9: Resilience counts; Chapter 10: Teachers who make a difference: New lives, old truths; Appendix: The workline chart; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Building upon Huberman's classic study, this title probes not only teachers' everyday lives, but also the ways in which they negotiate the pitfalls of professional development and the different life and work 'scenarios' that challenge their sense of identity, well-being and effectiveness
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Subject Education -- Biographical methods.
Teachers -- In-service training.
Teachers -- Training of.
Teachers - Vocational guidance
Education -- Biographical methods
Teachers -- In-service training
Teachers -- Training of
Teachers -- Vocational guidance
Form Electronic book
Author Gu, Qing
ISBN 9780203847909
0203847903