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- Title
Teacher Leadership: Everyday Practices Surrounding Work-Related Stress.
- Authors
Nigel, Chiweshe
- Abstract
This interpretivist study contributes to our scholarly understanding of how everyday practices surrounding work-related stress in education affect teacher leadership and successful learning outcomes. Insights are drawn from our long-standing engagement in the field where we observed how teaching staff, students, and management interacted. These observations were supplemented by in-depth interviews with 20 teaching staff. Our findings reveal competing demands and practices across the individual intrapersonal environment and the work related environment. There were three key themes that emerged in answer to the core research question: 1) the role of relational practices in managing teacher burnout, 2) the role of surveillance practices in education and 3) the role of assimilating practices in education. Drawing insights from these practices, we develop a conceptual framework that will help us to see relations at work anew, and develop a deeper understanding of 'sickies', motivation, learning outcomes and teacher leadership opportunities in education.
- Publication
Acta Universitatis Danubius. Communicatio, 2015, Vol 9, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1844-7562
- Publication type
Academic Journal