Overview
- Draws on the stories of sixty graduate teachers from Australia to identify the key barriers, interferences and obstacles to teacher resilience
- Provides a framework for dialogue around what kinds of conditions need to be created and sustained in order to promote early career teacher resilience
- Provides a set of resources – stories, discussion, comments, reflective questions and insights from the literature – to promote conversations among stakeholders
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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About the authors
Dr Bruce Johnson is an Adjunct Research Professor of Education at the University of South Australia. His research interests include human resilience, curriculum theory and development, school reform, classroom management, and sexuality education.
Professor Barry Down is the City of Rockingham Chair in Education at Murdoch University, Western Australia. His research interests include teacher education, critical policy ethnography, and pedagogies for social justice.
Associate Professor Rosie Le Cornu is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Teacher Education at the University of South Australia. Rosie's current research interests are quality teaching and learning, professional experiences framed around learning communities, early career teachers and the role of mentoring.
Dr Judy Peters is an Adjunct Lecturer in Education at the University of South Australia. Current research interests include: pre-service teachers’ learning, early career teacher resilience, leadership for educational change and transformational learning cultures.
Dr Anna Sullivan is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of South Australia. Her current research interests include critical policy studies, micropolitics, teachers’ work, classroom management and school discipline.
Dr Jane Pearce is Senior Lecturer in Education and Associate Dean, Learning and Teaching in the School of Education at Murdoch University. Her research interests include social inclusion in education, pedagogies for literacy learning, and teachers’ work.
Janet Hunter teaches literacy education at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia. Janet’s current research interests focus on supporting students who are underperforming in literacy, the pedagogy of writing, developing teachers’ knowledge about literacy instruction and supports for Early Career Teachers, particularly those in rural schools.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Early Career Teachers
Book Subtitle: Stories of Resilience
Authors: Bruce Johnson, Barry Down, Rosie Le Cornu, Judy Peters, Anna Sullivan, Jane Pearce, Janet Hunter
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-173-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-287-172-5Published: 26 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-173-2Published: 12 September 2014
Series ISSN: 2211-1921
Series E-ISSN: 2211-193X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 124
Number of Illustrations: 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Teaching and Teacher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Professional & Vocational Education