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1 online resource (xiii, 168 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Higher Education.
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| Summary |
There Has to be a Better Way offers an essential voice in understanding the dynamics of teacher attrition from the perspective of the teachers themselves. Drawing upon in-depth qualitative research with former teachers, the authors identify several themes that uncover the rarely-spoken reasons why teachers so often willingly leave the classroom. |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword / Day, Christopher -- Introduction: Walking In Through The Out Door: Professional Trajectories Of Urban Teachers -- Part I: The Dynamics Of Teacher Attrition -- 1. Push And Pull In Career Development -- Part II: Structural Factors In Teacher Attrition -- 2. The Struggle Is Real: Administrators, Teachers, And The System -- 3. Wading Through The Waters: Exhaustion, Stress, And Disillusionment With Teaching -- 4. Where Has All The Job Security Gone? -- Part III: The Personal And The Professional In Teacher Attrition -- 5. You Don't Fit Here: Teachers Of Color Coping With Racial Microaggressions In Schools -- 6. Negotiating Gendered And Cultural Expectations On A Teacher'S Salary: The Mediating Role Of Identity -- 7. I Just Feel So Guilty: The Role Of Emotions In Leaving -- Part IV: Addressing Teacher Attrition -- 8. Closing The Revolving Door: Teacher Leavers' Final Lesson For The Profession -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Education, Urban -- United States.
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Education, Urban. |
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United States. |
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Urban schools -- United States.
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Urban schools. |
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Teaching -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Teaching -- Social aspects. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Rinke, Carol R., author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mawhinney, Lynnette. There Has to Be a Better Way : Lessons from Former Urban Teachers. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, ©2019 9780813595283 |
| ISBN |
9780813595313 (electronic book) |
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0813595312 (electronic book) |
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9780813595290 (electronic book) |
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0813595290 (electronic book) |
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9780813595283 |
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0813595282 |
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9780813595276 |
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0813595274 |
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