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Educational Folly: Teacher Well-Being and the Chaos of American Schooling, offers a comprehensive critique of educational reforms that have eroded the teacher's position. This leaves teachers with psychological scars - scars which are fueling the recent exodus from teaching. Gonsalves lays out a new vision for the future of education reform. This model centers around justice, community, and professionalism to return the teacher to the rightful head of the classroom and to restore dignity and progress to all of America's schools.
Contents
Dedication
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: So, You Want to Teach in a High Needs School? Family, Friends, and the Media
Chapter 2: The Impact of Accountability Systems on Teachers and School Culture
Chapter 3: Students: The Impact of Social-Emotional Struggles, Trauma, and Learning
Difficulties on Classroom Behavior
Chapter 4: What Ails the Children?
Chapter 5: Cognitive Complexity and the Need for Competence
Section Two: Teacher Health and Well-Being
Chapter 6: How Under-Resourced Schools Thwart Teachers' Basic Human Needs
Chapter 7: Emotions and Cognitive Dissonance: The Psychological Pain of Teaching
Chapter 8: Colleagues and the Need for Relatedness in Schools
Chapter 9: Teachers of Color and White Teachers' Experiences in Schools: Different Causes,
Similar Pain
Section Three: Reforming Urban Schools for Teacher and Student Well-Being
Chapter 10: Teacher Preparation: What Education Can Learn from the Field of Nursing
Chapter 11: School Culture and Environment: What Education can Learn from the Field of
Nursing
Chapter 12: Nurses, Teachers, and Clinical Microsystems
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