SpringerBriefs in Education Early Career Teachers - Bruce Johnson Barry Down Rosie Le Cornu Judy Peters Anna Sullivan Jane Pearce Janet Hunter Kartoniert (TB)

This book addresses one of the most persistent issues confronting governments educations systems and schools today: the attraction preparation and retention of early career teachers. It draws on the stories of sixty graduate teachers from Australia to identify the key barriers interferences and obstacles to teacher resilience and what might be done about it. Based on these stories five interrelated themes - policies and practices school culture teacher identity teachers' work and relationships - provide a framework for dialogue around what kinds of conditions need to be created and su stained in order to promote early career teacher resilience. The book provides a set of resources - stories discussion comments reflective questions and insights from the literature - to promote conversations among stakeholders rather than providing yet another 'how to do' list for improving the daily lives of early career teachers. Teaching is a complex fragile and uncertain profession. It operates in an environment of unprecedented educational reforms designed to control manage and manipulate pedagogical judgements. Teacher resilience must take account of both the context and circumstances of individual schools (especially those in economically disadvantaged communities) and the diversity of backgrounds and talents of early career teachers themselves. The book acknowledges that the substantial level of change required- cultural structural pedagogical and relational - to improve early career teacher resilience demands a great deal of cooperation and support from governments education systems schools universities and communities: teachers cannot do it alone. This book is written to generate conversations amongst early career teachers teacher colleagues school leaders education administrators academics and community leaders about the kinds of pedagogical and relational conditions required to promote early career teacher resilience andwellbeing.