1st Edition
Teachers Under Pressure Stress in the Teaching Profession
248 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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Our education system has undergone a process of enormous and rapid change, and all too often teachers have found that insufficient support has been offered to help them cope with this. As a result, most teachers now find that they experience stress of one sort or another at some point during their careers. As a direct reaction to this, the National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women... Read more
Part 1 Background to the Study of Teacher Stress; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Costs and Consequences of Stress Among Teachers; Chapter 3 Sources of Stress in Teaching; Part 2 A Study of Teacher Stress; Chapter 4 Who are the Teachers?; Chapter 5 How Teachers Respond to the Job of Teaching; Chapter 6 Sources of Pressure in the Job of Teaching; Part 3 Recommendations; Chapter 7 What can be Done About Teacher Stress?;
Biography
Cheryl Travers is Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management at Loughborough University Business School. She has trained a great number of teachers in stress and time management., Cary Cooper is Professor of Organizational Psychology at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. He has published many books on the subject of stress in the workplace.
'This book is worth reading. It is comprehensive, nicely organized, and well written.' - International Review of Education
