Overview
- Explores teacher well-being in the context of social and linguistic diversity
- Addresses the well-being-related needs of practising teachers
- Offers international perspectives on lessons learnt regarding teacher well-being in socially diverse and multilingual teaching contexts
Part of the book series: Understanding Teaching-Learning Practice (UTLP)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- teacher well-being
- promoting teacher well-being
- pedagogical effectiveness of teachers in diverse contexts
- ethnic diversity in schools and classrooms
- socio-economic disadvantages in classrooms
- social justice and education
- enhancing teaching and learning experiences of classroom pupils
- core processes of teachers' work
- pedagogical well-being
- classroom practitioner enquiries and teacher well-being
- wholistic wellbeing
- learning and instruction
About this book
This book contributes to the emerging field of literature on teacher well-being and offers international perspectives on lessons learnt in socially diverse and multilingual teaching contexts. Accordingly, it offers a valuable resource for teacher educators, researchers, pre-service and in-service teachers, and policymakers.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Timothy Murphy is a Lecturer in Educational Research and Policy at the School of Education, University of Limerick. He is a Graduate of Teachers College, Columbia University, New York and has researched and worked in a number of educational contexts, including England, the USA and Ireland. He has published widely in the field of education, on topics ranging from education policy and reform, to disadvantage in education, as well as on teacher pedagogical well-being. The latter led to his participation in a three-year Erasmus+ EU project on Teacher Well-being and Diversity which provided the inspiration for this book.
Professor Patricia Mannix-McNamara is head of the School of Education at the University of Limerick in Ireland. Her experience spans school leadership, systems leadership, organizational culture and climate, workplace wellbeing in education and organizational behaviours and she is widely published in these fields. She serves as an advisor to national bodies and has championed school health promotion for two decades. She is the joint chair of the National Behaviour in Organisations Research Group (BORG) with her colleague Dr. Margaret Hodgins in the National University of Ireland Galway. Her motivation in this text is to place wellbeing, for both teachers and students, at the heart of teaching culture.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Perspectives on Teacher Well-Being and Diversity
Book Subtitle: Portals into Innovative Classroom Practice
Editors: Timothy R. N. Murphy, Patricia Mannix-McNamara
Series Title: Understanding Teaching-Learning Practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1699-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-1698-3Published: 22 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-1701-0Published: 23 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-1699-0Published: 21 June 2021
Series ISSN: 2522-0845
Series E-ISSN: 2522-0853
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 209
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Teaching and Teacher Education, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Learning & Instruction, Educational Psychology