- Title
- The teacher perspective
- Creator
- Plunkett, Margaret; Dyson, Michael
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/165275
- Identifier
- vital:13246
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5732-8_6
- Identifier
- ISBN:978-981-10-5731-1
- Abstract
- As indicated in other chapters of this book, the School for Student Leadership has a focus on relationships and development or growth in understanding of self and others. Not all teachers would choose to teach in this type of school, so this chapter on the teachers’ perspective highlights some of the hopes and aspirations of the teachers working in the SSL. A number of studies within the longitudinal project have included teachers, but the study discussed in this chapter involved a mixed methods study of the 33 teachers working across the 3 campuses of the school during 2010. They were surveyed and interviewed about their perceptions of being a teacher in the SSL. The findings illustrated a genuine commitment to the principles underpinning the core moral purpose of the school and the concomitant level of involvement required to teach in such an environment. While most reported that they did not see their role as ‘teacher’ in this environment to be substantively different from original perceptions they held of themselves as teachers, there was an acknowledgement of the different emphasis that was both possible and necessary within the distinctive context of the setting.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Relation
- Surviving, thriving and reviving in adolescence : Research and narratives from the school for student leadership Chapter 6 p. 91-105
- Rights
- Copyright © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Alternate educational setting; Adolescent relationships; Contemporary rite of passage; Personal growth; Student leadership; Social emotional development; Residential education; School for student leadership; Middle years education; Alternative education; Education in Australia
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