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With such a large canvas to paint on, choosing an appropriate starting point when embarking on an account in broad brushstrokes of teachers’ lives and work is challenging. I’ve chosen work rather than ‘career’ since for many, myself included, who entered into teaching, especially in smaller jurisdictions, career – in the sense of prospects for advancement, opportunities for planned promotional trajectories were extremely limited.
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Sugrue, C. (2013). Teachers’ Lives and Work. In: Flores, M.A., Carvalho, A.A., Ferreira, F.I., Vilaça, M.T. (eds) Back to the Future. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-240-2_3
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