Overview
- Investigates the impact of micro-education policies to effectively manage the global out-of-field phenomenon
- Highlights the support and resource policy discourses that are essential to confront the endemic workforce tradition of the out-of-field teaching phenomenon, and vice versa
- Offers real world examples of the current issues teachers, students, and educational leaders face in out-of-field teaching and learning environments
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- education improvement policies
- school improvement policy
- the teaching workforce
- quality teaching
- teacher quality
- out-of-field phenomenon
- out-of-field teaching practices
- student achievement
- teacher workforce planning
- teacher wellbeing
- student wellbeing
- teacher retention
- teacher turnover
- teacher attrition
- initial teacher education
- professional development of teachers
- professional support for teachers
- beginning teachers
- managing the out-of-field phenomenon
- learning and instruction
About this book
This book focuses on the elusive out-of-field teaching phenomenon and its direct effects on quality education globally. Based on the experiences and concerns of teachers and school leaders, it investigates the phenomenon’s impact on everyday teaching and school practices, and offers insights into the challenges that out-of-field teachers face in maintaining their role as the “knowledgeable counterpart” in their teaching and learning environments. In this frame, it also highlights the often-overlooked importance of initial teacher education and its preparation of prospective teachers for employment in complex school contexts, subjects or year levels.
The book emphasises the need to develop specific policy strategies to effectively address the global implications of out-of-field teaching, and explores the potential of micro-education policies as targeted support resources for teachers in these challenging positions. Through this new policy lens, which renegotiates the discourse of education policy as a quality education improvement framework, the book offers readers a comprehensive understanding of the urgent need for policy to uphold all stakeholders involved in these unique and complex environments. Accordingly, the book is a valuable resource for academic advisors, decision-makers, policy-makers, and educational and school leaders in developing new approaches to improving school outcomes that promote the retention of teachers for a strong and stable teaching workforce.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Out-of-Field Teaching and Education Policy
Book Subtitle: International Micro-Education Policy
Authors: Anna Elizabeth Du Plessis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1948-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-1947-5Published: 12 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-1950-5Published: 13 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-1948-2Published: 11 January 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 357
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Teaching and Teacher Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Sociology of Education, Schools and Schooling, Learning & Instruction