Special issue: teachers and resilience: interdisciplinary accounts
Special issue: teachers and resilience: interdisciplinary accounts
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特刊:教师与复原力:跨学科账户
DOI:
10.1080/13540602.2014.937956
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发表时间:
2014
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
Griffiths A
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作者:
Griffiths A
This collection of papers is one outcome of a seminar series funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council. The series brought together researchers in education, occupational health, organisational science and psychology; teachers; teacher educators, nurse educators; local authority leaders; the then Training and Development Agency for Schools; and representatives of organisations helping teachers suffering from work-related stress. This group met for four days over one year to discuss contributions from Australia and the Netherlands as well as the UK in order to build understandings of resilience in schools. A booklet outlining some exemplar projects can be downloaded at http://www. esrc. ac. uk/my-esrc/grants/RES-451-26-0668/outputs/read/d93b9939-79f3-474f-ad74-911e6a16a160. The starting point was the set of studies of teachers’ professional lives undertaken by the seminar leaders Christopher Day and Qing Gu, with others at the University of Nottingham in the UK. Their reflections on the findings of their long-running VITAE (Variations in Teachers’ Lives, Work and Effectiveness) research programme had begun to suggest that the idea of resilience, usually associated with child development research, had considerable explanatory power when considering the persistence and well-being of teachers (Day & Gu, 2014). Seminar discussions moved quickly away from notions of resilience as simply a personal attribute which allowed some teachers to cope with the demands of school life; and went on to focus on creating school environments in which teachers could operate as agentic and purposeful professionals. Insights from organisational science contributed to this growing understanding of how, for example, school leaders can create practices which foster the agency and purpose that sustain professional engagement and the capacity for resilience in managing even the most demanding of tasks.Examples of thriving schools, with high levels of teacher retention, revealed that these practices are marked by relationships where professional expertise and judgements are taken seriously and are shaped by attention to professional values which transcend the relatively narrow focus of external inspection criteria. This attention to relationships, of course, is found in many of the more recent psychological, within person, views of resilience; Luthar and Brown have, for example, observed ‘…[t] he presence of support, love and security fosters resilience, in part by reinforcing people’s innate strengths (such as self-efficacy, positive emotions and emotion regulation)…’(Luthar & Brown, 2007, p. 957). However, the professionally grounded and multi-disciplinary accounts of resilience that were shared in the seminars took us beyond Luthar and Brown’s version of a relational view of the concept; and instead pointed to a dialectical account which recognised that self-efficacy and commitment, which are so necessary to agentic purposeful practice, involve an impact on the practice itself.
DOI:
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发表时间:
2013
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影响因子:
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作者:
Day
通讯作者:
Day
影响因子:
1.5
作者:
Edwards, Anne
通讯作者:
Edwards, Anne
DOI:
10.7146/ocps.v9i1.2087
发表时间:
2007
期刊:
Outlines. Critical Practice Studies
影响因子:
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作者:
A. Edwards;A. Apostolov
通讯作者:
A. Apostolov