New Understandings of Teacher's Work - Christopher Day & John Chi-Kin Lee

By Christopher Day & John Chi-Kin Lee

Release Date: 2011-03-02

Genre: Education

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Within educational research that seeks to understand the quality and effectiveness of teachers and school, the role emotions play in educational change and school improvement has become a subject of increasing importance. In this book, scholars from around the world explore the connections between teaching, teacher education, teacher emotions, educational change and school leadership. (For this text, ā€œteacherā€ encompasses pre-service teachers, in-service teachers and headteachers, or principals).  

New Understandings of Teacher’s Work: Emotions and Educational Change is divided into four themes: educational change; teachers and teaching; teacher education; and emotions in leadership. The chapters address the key basic and substantive issues relative to the central emotional themes of the following: teachers’ lives and careers in teaching; the role emotions play in teachers’ work; lives and leadership roles in the context of educational reform; the working conditions; the context-specific dynamics of reform work; school/teacher cultures; individual biographies that affect teachers’ emotional well-being; and the implications for the management and leadership of educationalchange, and for development, of teacher education.

New Understandings of Teacher's Work - Christopher Day & John Chi-Kin Lee

By Christopher Day & John Chi-Kin Lee

Release Date: 2011-03-02

Genre: Education

(0 ratings)
Within educational research that seeks to understand the quality and effectiveness of teachers and school, the role emotions play in educational change and school improvement has become a subject of increasing importance. In this book, scholars from around the world explore the connections between teaching, teacher education, teacher emotions, educational change and school leadership. (For this text, ā€œteacherā€ encompasses pre-service teachers, in-service teachers and headteachers, or principals).  

New Understandings of Teacher’s Work: Emotions and Educational Change is divided into four themes: educational change; teachers and teaching; teacher education; and emotions in leadership. The chapters address the key basic and substantive issues relative to the central emotional themes of the following: teachers’ lives and careers in teaching; the role emotions play in teachers’ work; lives and leadership roles in the context of educational reform; the working conditions; the context-specific dynamics of reform work; school/teacher cultures; individual biographies that affect teachers’ emotional well-being; and the implications for the management and leadership of educationalchange, and for development, of teacher education.

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