Christopher Day

Teachers' Worlds and Work

Understanding Complexity, Building Quality

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Understanding teachers' work and influences is key to ensuring an on-going commitment and quality to their career. Teachers' Work and Lives is the first text to offer a holistic consideration of the complexities of the personal, workplace and policy contexts, in order to understand, build and sustain the quality of teachers' work. This book brings together bodies of research to offer a new definition of teachers' learning and professional development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 369g
• ISBN-13: 9781138048607
• ISBN-10: 1138048607
• Artikelnr.: 47722051

Autorenporträt

Christopher Day is Professor of Education at the School of Education, University of Nottingham, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
1. Teacher professionalism in changing times
2. Professional identities: teaching as emotional work
3. Variations in teachers' work and lives: commitment as a key to quality
4. A capacity for resilience
5. Professional learning and development: combining the functional and
attitudinal
6. Learning as a school-led social endeavour
7. The importance of high quality leadership
8. Understanding complexity, building quality