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Cultivating Teacher Resilience

International Approaches, Applications and Impact

  • Features chapters focusing on conceptual issues, empirical studies and applications

  • Includes multiple perspectives and contexts that highlight the importance of cultivating resilience at various stages of teachers’ careers

  • Offers specific examples of how teacher resilience can be promoted for pre-service and practicing teachers

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Foundations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
    2. Cultivating Teacher Resilience: Introduction

      • Caroline F. Mansfield
      Pages 3-10Open Access
    3. A BRiTE Journey: 2013–2019

      • Caroline F. Mansfield, Susan Beltman, Noelene Weatherby-Fell, Tania Broadley, Claire Botman
      Pages 27-47Open Access
  3. Implementation and Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
    2. Building Resilience for Early Years Teachers

      • Noelene Weatherby-Fell, Cathrine Neilsen-Hewett, Susan Duchesne
      Pages 51-67Open Access
    3. Thinking Dispositions for Teaching: Enabling and Supporting Resilience in Context

      • Sharon McDonough, Amanda McGraw
      Pages 69-83Open Access
    4. ‘Positive Education’: A Professional Learning Programme to Foster Teachers’ Resilience and Well-Being

      • Luísa Fernandes, Maria João Gouveia, José Castro Silva, Francisco Peixoto
      Pages 103-124Open Access
    5. Professional Assessment and Development Induction Program: An Application of the BRiTE Project to the Spanish Context

      • Gloria Gratacós, Montse Giménez, Juanjo Mena, Monika Ciesielkiewicz
      Pages 125-141Open Access
    6. Staying BRiTE in the Dutch Teacher Education Context

      • Marjon Fokkens-Bruinsma, Michelle M. Gemmink, Els C. M. Van Rooij
      Pages 143-158Open Access
    7. Practical Applications for Building Teacher WellBeing in Education

      • Daniela Falecki, Elizabeth Mann
      Pages 175-191Open Access
  4. Future Directions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193
    2. ‘Head’ First: Principal Self-care to Promote Teacher Resilience

      • Johanne Klap, Judith MacCallum, Caroline F. Mansfield
      Pages 195-210Open Access
    3. Understanding Teacher Wellbeing Through Job Demands-Resources Theory

      • Helena Granziera, Rebecca Collie, Andrew Martin
      Pages 229-244Open Access
    4. Teachers’ Resilience: Conceived, Perceived or Lived-in

      • Helen J. Boon
      Pages 263-278Open Access

About this book

This open access book follows the development of the Building Resilience in Teacher Education (BRiTE) project across Australia and internationally. Drawing on the success of this project and the related research collaborations that have since emerged, it highlights the importance of cultivating resilience at various stages of teachers’ careers.


Divided into three sections, the book includes conceptual, empirical and applied chapters, designed to introduce readers to the field of research, provide empirical evidence and showcase innovative applications. The respective chapters illustrate the ways in which teacher resilience can be enhanced in a variety of contexts, and address specific learning activities, case studies, resources and strategies, student feedback and applied outcomes. They also consider future directions including cross-cultural applications and the use of technologies such as augmented reality. The book will appeal to researchers, teacher educators and teachers, as well as those interested in supporting the cultivation and ongoing development of professional resilience for pre-service and practicing teachers.

Keywords

  • open access
  • teacher resilience framework
  • building resilience in teacher education
  • teacher education in Australia
  • teacher resilience
  • non-cognitive attributes of teachers
  • teacher wellbeing
  • teacher preparation
  • pre-service teachers
  • teacher dispositions
  • wellbeing in education
  • building teacher resilience
  • building resilience
  • arts-based approaches to resilience
  • arts-based approaches to teacher resilience
  • resilience in early years
  • teacher resilience in early years

Editors and Affiliations

  • The University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, Australia

    Caroline F. Mansfield

About the editor

Dr Caroline Mansfield is a Professor and Dean of the School of Education at The University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle. As a passionate teacher and teacher educator, Caroline has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses on effective teaching, strategies to enhance student learning, and resilience in educational contexts. She has received awards of excellence for research, teaching and service to the community. Caroline’s research has centred on teacher resilience and wellbeing, particularly at the pre-service and early career stages. With the critical role teacher education plays in setting the stage for a successful career, Caroline has led three projects on supporting resilience at the pre-service level, most notably the internationally unique and successful BRiTE (Building Resilience in Teacher Education) project. Completed in 2015, the five BRiTE online learning modules continue to be widely used nationally by pre-service and practicing teachers, and have also attracted international users in the UK, Europe, USA and Canada. In 2016 Caroline was awarded a National Learning and Teaching Fellowship (Staying BRiTE) to collaborate with colleagues across Australia and develop contextually responsive approaches to promoting pre-service teacher resilience in higher education programs. Caroline’s future research will focus on the conditions that enable teachers to maintain engagement, commitment and motivation, and to thrive throughout their careers.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cultivating Teacher Resilience

  • Book Subtitle: International Approaches, Applications and Impact

  • Editors: Caroline F. Mansfield

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5963-1

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020

  • License: CC BY

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-5962-4Published: 12 August 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-5965-5Published: 18 September 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-5963-1Published: 11 August 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 307

  • Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Teaching and Teacher Education, Professional & Vocational Education, Sociology of Education, Positive Psychology

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