Teachers, Career Trajectories and Work Lives

Teachers, Career Trajectories and Work Lives

Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education Volume 3 Series Editors Christopher Day School of Education, University of Nottingham, UK Judyth Sachs Macquarie University, Australia Editorial Board P. Blackmore Kings College London, London, UK M. Cochran-Smith Lynch School of Education, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, USA J. Furlong Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK A. Lieberman The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Stanford, USA J. Orrell School of Education, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia C. Sugrue Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education disseminates original, research informed writing on the connections between teacher learning and professionalism in schools and higher education. Global in their coverage, the texts deal with the problems and practices of the field in different national and international cultural, policy and practice contexts. The methodology employed encompasses a broad spectrum of conceptual, theoretical, philosophical and empirical research activities. The series explicitly encompasses both the fields of schools and higher education. The subject areas covered by the series are: professional learning in schools; contexts for professional learning; professional learning in higher education; change; the (new) meanings of professionalism in schools and higher education; training and development in schools and higher education; the well-being agenda in schools and higher education; autonomy, compliance and effectiveness in schools and higher education; principal leadership in schools and higher education; middle-level leadership in schools and higher education. For other titles published in this series, go to www.springer.com/series/7908

Martin Bayer Ulf Brinkkjær Helle Plauborg Simon Rolls Editors Teachers, Career Trajectories and Work Lives

Editors Martin Bayer Helle Plauborg Ulf Brinkkjær Simon Rolls ISBN: 978-90-481-2357-5 e-isbn: 978-90-481-2358-2 DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2358-2 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009928833 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Contents Introduction to Teachers Career Trajectories... 1 Martin Bayer, Ulf Brinkkjær, Helle Plauborg, and Simon Rolls 1 Teachers Career Trajectories: An Examination of Research... 9 Simon Rolls and Helle Plauborg 2 Career Stories as Gateway to Understanding Teacher Development... 29 Geert Kelchtermans 3 Committed for Life? Variations in Teachers Work, Lives and Effectiveness... 49 Christopher Day, Pam Sammons, Qing Gu, Alison Kington, and Gordon Stobart 4 On the Unacknowledged Significance of Teachers Habitus and Dispositions... 71 Jette Steensen 5 Teachers Professional Learning and the Workplace Curriculum... 93 Martin Bayer and Ulf Brinkkjær 6 Careers Under Stress: Teacher Adaptations at a Time of Intensive Reform... 117 Geoff Troman and Peter Woods 7 The Careers of Urban Teachers: A Synthesis of Findings from UCLA s Longitudinal Study of Urban Educators... 143 Karen Hunter Quartz 8 Teacher Gender and Career Patterns... 159 Mary Thornton and Patricia Bricheno v

vi Contents 9 Regenerating Teachers... 179 Corrie Stone-Johnson 10 Listening to Professional Life Stories: Some Cross-Professional Perspectives... 203 Ivor Goodson Epilogue: Teaching Professions in Restructuring Contexts... 211 Sverker Lindblad Author Index... 225 Subject Index... 229