Surviving, being resilient and resisting: teachers' experiences in adverse times

This paper reports on a three-year research project aimed at examining experiences of being a teacher in a context of school reform and adverse times. A mixed-method research design was devised, including a national survey, semi-structured interviews, focus groups and a professional development prog...

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Published in:Cambridge journal of education 2020-03, Vol.50 (2), p.219-240
Main Author: Flores, Maria Assunção
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Administrative Organization
Administrator Attitudes
Ciências da Educação
Ciências Sociais
Collegiality
Context
Coping
Cultural identity
Cultural instruction
Development programs
Economic Climate
Economic conditions
Education reform
Educational Change
Elementary Secondary Education
Faculty Workload
Foreign Countries
Job Security
Leadership
Principals
Professional Development
Professional Identity
Professional training
Professionalism
Research design
Resilience
Resilience (Psychology)
Resistance (Psychology)
School Culture
Social Sciences
Socioeconomic Status
Teacher Attitudes
Teacher education
Teachers
Teachers' lives
Teaching
Teaching Conditions
Values
Work values
Working conditions
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Summary:This paper reports on a three-year research project aimed at examining experiences of being a teacher in a context of school reform and adverse times. A mixed-method research design was devised, including a national survey, semi-structured interviews, focus groups and a professional development programme. Findings suggest that teachers face old and new demands in a context of school reform and adverse times along with the worsening of their working conditions, the deterioration of their socio-economic status and the lack of career prospects. Some of them try to survive; others resist feelings of giving up by becoming more resilient and resisting. Professional values, a sense of professionalism and identity, along with the relational and emotional dimensions of teaching, and, in some cases, school culture and leadership, explain the ways in which some teachers became more resilient and resistant than others.
ISSN:0305-764X
1469-3577
DOI:10.1080/0305764X.2019.1664399