Description
Teaching is hard work. Teaching is rewarding work. An abundance of research on teachers’ mental health, teacher burnout, and attrition in the profession has proven the truth of the first claim. And, without reading a word of academic research, teachers know the truth of the second: there are numerous challenges and complexities involved in this noble profession. Teachers also know the truth of our second claim—that teaching is immensely rewarding work.
The editors and authors of Joyful Resilience as Educational Practice: Transforming Teaching Challenges into Opportunities argue that the reciprocities of teaching keep them and countless other teachers in the profession. While teaching is one of the most demanding professions on earth, it is also one of the most rewarding professions. Editors Michelle C. Hughes and Ken Badley hope readers and teaching colleagues alike will be reminded of the rewards and the unexpected paybacks found in teaching. Joyful Resilience as Educational Practice is offered as a love letter, a "hang-in-there, you’ve got this" message to teacher colleagues everywhere.
May readers be reminded that teaching is a calling. The editors invite readers to wrestle with, take courage, and find joyful resilience in the professional challenges named in this book.
Table of Contents
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contributor biographies
Chapters
1. The Teaching Vocation and the Interior Lives of Teachers
Michelle C. Hughes and Ken Badley
2. Reciprocities with Students
Michelle C. Hughes
3. When Students Become Our Teachers
Joy A. Chadwick
4. Is there a Class in this Text?
Ken Badley and Dana Antayá-Moore
5. Sustainable Teaching: Reflective & Responsive Practices
Sunshine R. Sullivan
6. Minding the Gap: Seeing, Valuing, and Using the Theory-Practice Tension in the Classroom
Paige A. Ray
7. Colleagues
Tiana Tucker
8. The Power of Gifts From Supervisors Who Share
Jay Mathisen
9. A Long and Rewarding Apprenticeship: The Sustaining Inspiration of Our Mentors
Andrew Mullen
10. Families
Michelle C. Hughes and Ken Badley
11. Joyful Resilience through Dissonance, Doubt, and Disillusionment
Carrie R. Giboney Wall
12. Navigating Political, Economic, and Curriculum Constraints with Joyful Defiance
Dana Antayá-Moore and Joanne Neal
13. Teacher-Student Reciprocities in Three Educational Models
Daniel H. Jarvis and April E. Jarvis
14. Uncovering Joyful Resilience
Ken Badley and Michelle C. Hughes
Index
