1st Edition
Workload, Burnout, and Wellbeing in Education Theoretical Insights for Transforming Work Conditions
236 Pages
1 Color & 7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
This book focuses on contemporary, local working conditions for teachers and school leaders globally, using diverse ways to theorise critical issues of workload, wellbeing, burnout and retention within the teaching profession, thereby provoking alternative responses to the challenges faced.
Sketching a broad picture of the ways in which teacher wellbeing, workload intensification, and staff... Read more
Introduction
Amanda McKay and Fiona Longmuir
- School leaders' writings and the crisis in leader recruitment and retention: a Rancièrian reading.
Pat Thomson, Toby Greany, Tom Perry and Mike Collins
- Challenges to care in the shadows of the neo-liberal school: Recentering relational and community care for radical leadership.
Saul Karnovsky & Sally Lamping
- Educational Isolation in Global Perspective: Evidence from England on Place-Based Challenges for Teacher Recruitment and Retention in Coastal and Rural Schools.
Tanya Ovenden-Hope
- Tracing Transnational Entanglements of Teacher Retention through the Lens of Agential realism.
Helle Plauborg & Geert Kelchtermans
- On my own terms: Exploring Indigenous teacher attrition and retention.
Ren Perkins & Jo Lampert
- Rural School Staffing between Centralization and Decentralization – the Case of Norway.
Unn-Doris K. Bæck & Daniel Andre Voll Rød
- Cruel optimism and the school day: School leader reports of time poverty in Queensland schools.
Nicole Mockler, Meghan Stacey, Anna Hogan, Greg Thompson, & Sue Creagh
- Dealing with distance: teacher induction through a geographical lens.
Thu Dao & Geert Kelchtermans
- Addressing Teacher-Directed Violence: Lower Secondary Schools Creating Safer Work Environments.
Ilse Hakvoort & Sofia Persson
- Principals’ emotional labour in responding to critical incidents: Examining burnout from ‘lone ranger’ principals through a practice architectures lens.
Christine Grice, Jane Wilkinson, Lucas Walsh, Fiona Longmuir, Amanda Keddie, Philippa Chandler & Tim Delany
- Unheard Horizons: Burnout and the Crisis of Interpretation in Educational Leadership.
Carolyn Wade
Conclusion
Fiona Longmuir & Amanda McKay
Biography
Amanda McKay is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
Fiona Longmuir is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership in the School of Education, Culture and Society, and Co-leader of the Education Workforce for the Future Research Impact Lab, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia.
