ERIC Number: EJ1038542
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
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The Teacher Educator's Role in Promoting Institutional versus Individual Teacher Well-Being
Margolis, Jason; Hodge, Ashley; Alexandrou, Alex
Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, v40 n4 p391-408 2014
This article addresses the teacher educator's role in defining and facilitating teacher well-being. It does so by first exploring the literature on teacher well-being, resilience, resistance, morality and professional dispositions. It then examines the policies and rhetoric of two countries, the USA and England, as examples of a global tilt towards the excessive promotion of institutional well-being at the expense of individual teachers. It concludes with specific recommendations at the university programme and teacher educator levels for bringing individual and institutional well-being into better balance. These include: innovating sustained and reciprocal university-school partnerships; helping new teachers become 'mindful' rather than solely resistant; analysing cases of teaching to become more aware of macro vs. micro influences; and facilitating skills in taking oppositional stances, including within the teacher educator's own classroom.
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Teacher Role, Well Being, Comparative Education, Resilience (Psychology), Resistance (Psychology), Teacher Characteristics, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Discourse Analysis, Adjustment (to Environment), Faculty Development, Moral Issues, Standards, Literature Reviews
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England); United States
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