Editors:
- First comprehensive volume on current research on teachers’ career trajectories and work lives
- Contributes to a better understanding of the ways in which teachers’ careers unfold
- Discusses future research areas within the field of teachers’ career trajectories and work lives and places the research presented in the anthology within a broader perspective
- Tackles a vitally important subject at the centre of today’s education debate
- Offers an international perspective with authors describing varied national contexts
Part of the book series: Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education (PROD, volume 3)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The working and career lives of teachers have changed radically over the last two decades. Reforms have turned education into a commodity and pupils into ‘consumers’. Yet not since 1992 has there been a comprehensive overview of research findings on teachers’ working lives. This anthology plugs the gap by collecting various scholarly contributions and perspectives on teachers’ career trajectories and work lives.
The material includes an introduction to previous research within the field, presents a range of contemporary research and offers suggestions as to what lies ahead. Among the contributors are leading educational academics who describe a variety of national contexts, illustrating how problems and challenges relating to the teaching profession manifest themselves and are tackled in different countries.
The anthology also shows just how many aspects of teachers’ career trajectories and work lives transcend national boundaries. Common international themes include stronger ties between education and the economy, and a growing importance placed on how students’ skills relate to the perceived needs of the labour market. There is also a greater degree of political interference in curriculum goals and processes, and an expanding obsession with evaluation.
In many countries, a whole generation of teachers are reaching retirement age, ‘changing the guard’ with a crop of new young recruits who are ever harder to attract. At a time when there is an increasing focus on issues such as teacher recruitment, retention and professional development, this anthology offers insight and inspiration to teacher educators and educational policy makers as well as to current and prospective teachers. It also aims at encouraging research into the field of teachers’ working lives.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Curriculum Research, Danish School of Education, University of Aarhus, Copenhagen, Denmark
Martin Bayer, Ulf Brinkkjær, Helle Plauborg, Simon Rolls
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Teachers' Career Trajectories and Work Lives
Editors: Martin Bayer, Ulf Brinkkjær, Helle Plauborg, Simon Rolls
Series Title: Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2358-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-2357-5Published: 05 August 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3689-4Published: 14 March 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-2358-2Published: 25 June 2009
Series ISSN: 1879-8624
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0556
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 230
Topics: Administration, Organization and Leadership, Teaching and Teacher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Professional & Vocational Education