Boon, Helen J. (2020) Teachers' resilience: conceived, perceived or lived-in. In: Mansfield, Caroline F., (ed.) Cultivating Teacher Resilience - International Approaches, Applications and Impacts. Springer, Singapore, pp. 263-278.

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[Extract] Schools in Western countries are places where work related conditions lead to teacher disaffection and attrition. To mitigate this employers and scholars advocate fostering teacher resilience. This chapter presents a critical examination of teacher resilience. Originally conceived as a personal trait, later research showed human resilience is an attribute that can be developed. Resilience is one’s ability to manage stressors and maintain adaptive functioning across all domains of life. Latterly, scholars investigated resilience in teachers, mainly through qualitative or quantitative self-report studies. This research constitutes perceived teacher resilience, because as formulated, teacher resilience is conceptually flawed, limited in scope, based on teachers’ functioning within their professional lives. We do not know what constitutes long serving teachers’ actual, lived-in resilience: what enables teachers to maintain their wellbeing and effectiveness in the classroom, reflecting human resilience as originally conceived. For an accurate profile of teacher resilience we must study those still teaching, and teachers who have exited the profession to determine why they left. Perhaps exiting the profession signals a resilient person who does accept working conditions that do not support wellbeing or teaching effectiveness. Perhaps ‘teacher resilience’ is inaccurately used in the context of teacher attrition and disaffection.

Item ID:	63316
Item Type:	Book Chapter (Research - B1)
ISBN:	978-981-15-5963-1
Keywords:	Teacher, Resilience, Wellbeing, Effectiveness.
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Date Deposited:	15 Oct 2020 01:56
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