Full Description
Schooling has long been held responsible for the health and well-being of children. However, against an international background of rising concern about students' performance and well-being, schools and teachers have faced escalating expectations of their health-related work. While various stakeholders have ideas about what teachers' health work entails, we know little about teachers' contributions, engagement and personal satisfaction with this work. As teachers' work represents a significant national investment, insight into the cost-benefit of teachers' health work is vital to establishing the broader economic contribution of schools to society.
Teachers as Health Workers offers a critical perspective on these matters, documenting the day-to-day work of Australian teachers as they grapple with the challenges, and joys, of balancing education and health-related responsibilities. Whilst shifts in policy, economics and globalisation influence localised enactment of teachers' health work, the economic modelling, theorising and methodological innovations of this research address enduring themes and challenges. Consequently, this book's critical perspective reveals policy-practice gaps in government strategies seeking to create a healthy and productive population.
The book will inform education, health and industrial policies and provide direction for teachers' initial or ongoing preparation as health workers.
Contents
Section I Exploring teachers' health work 1. Investigating teachers' health work 2. Getting our hands dirty - gathering and analysing data 3. Health-education policy interface - implications for teachers' work 4. Out in the field - early explorations of teachers' health work Section II Teachers' health work 5. Classroom-based health education 6. Health policy artefacts in the visible culture of schools 7. Health-oriented caring teaching 8. Health policy enactment within schools 9. Working though/managing crises Section III Teachers' health rork: care, crisis and costs 10. Teachers' spectrum of health work 11. Personal and system costs of teachers' health work 12. Care hustlers, costs and schooling health futures. Appendix
