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Provides insights into career change teachers’ value and contributions to the teaching profession
Examining the experiences of both career change classroom teachers and student teachers
Uses a phenomenological framework to explore career change teachers’ transformation
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Teaching Profession: Local and Global Contexts
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“My Journey into Teaching”: Stories of Career Change Teachers in Australia
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Career Change Pre-service and In-service Teachers: The Journeys of Student Teachers and Classroom Teachers
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Re-imagining the Future of the Teaching Profession
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Keywords
- Career change teachers
- Second career teachers
- Mature age teachers
- Non-traditional teachers
- Pre-service career change teachers
- Prior career teachers
- Mature age student learners
- Later-life learners
- Late entry teachers
- Mid-life career changers
- Second career teacher entrants
- Non-traditional teacher education student entrants
- STEM and mature aged pre-service teachers
- Teacher experiences
Authors and Affiliations
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Centre for Social Impact, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Meera Varadharajan
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University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
John Buchanan
About the authors
Dr John Buchanan is an Honorary Industry Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney, where he has coordinated international programs, including the International Practicum, most recently as an Associate Professor. He has taught at primary, secondary and tertiary levels, and is a recipient of teaching awards at institution, state and national levels. His teaching and research interests include: retention, attrition and quality of teachers, including the contributions of career change teachers; English as an additional language; LOTE (Languages other than English) education; intercultural; regional and global studies; and civics and citizenship education. He has published more than 80 refereed journal articles, books and book chapters in these fields, and has supervised more than a dozen higher degree research students on related topics. He has also presented at numerous international conferences, including invited plenary addresses in Korea, Pakistan, Colombia and the UAE. He has contributed to and led numerous funded research projects. He is a past president of the New South Wales Institute for Educational Research.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Career Change Teachers
Book Subtitle: Bringing Work and Life Experience to the Classroom
Authors: Meera Varadharajan, John Buchanan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6038-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-6037-5Published: 27 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-6040-5Published: 28 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-6038-2Published: 26 October 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 216
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Teaching and Teacher Education, Professional & Vocational Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Educational Philosophy