Teachers' Career Trajectories and Work Lives

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bayer, Martin (Editor), Brinkkjær, Ulf (Editor), Plauborg, Helle (Editor), Rolls, Simon (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education ; 3
• Subjects: Education.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Teaching.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Professional & Vocational Education.

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...

Table of Contents:

• to Teachers' Career Trajectories
• Teachers' Career Trajectories: An Examination of Research
• Career Stories as Gateway to Understanding Teacher Development
• Committed for Life? Variations in Teachers' Work, Lives and Effectiveness
• On the Unacknowledged Significance of Teachers' Habitus and Dispositions
• Teachers' Professional Learning and the Workplace Curriculum
• Careers Under Stress: Teacher Adaptations at a Time of Intensive Reform
• Postscript to ‘Careers Under Stress: Teacher Adaptations at a Time of Intensive Reform’
• The Careers of Urban Teachers: A Synthesis of Findings from UCLA's Longitudinal Study of Urban Educators
• Teacher Gender and Career Patterns
• Regenerating Teachers
• Listening to Professional Life Stories: Some Cross-Professional Perspectives
• Epilogue: Teaching Professions in Restructuring Contexts.