ABSTRACT

Featuring a broad swathe of academic research and perspectives from international contributors, this book will capture and share important lessons from the pandemic experience for teaching practice and teacher learning more broadly.

Looking at core teaching values such as the facilitation of learning, the promotion of fairness and equality, and community building, the book centres the records of teachers’ experiences from diverse educational phases and locations that illuminate how the complexity of teaching work is entangled in the emotional, relational, and embodied nature of teachers’ everyday lives. Through rich, qualitative data and first-hand experience, the book informs the decisions of teachers and those who train, support, and manage them, promoting sustainable, positive transformation within education for the benefit of educators and learners alike.

This book will be of use to scholars, practitioners, and researchers involved with teachers and teacher education, the sociology of education, and teaching and learning more broadly. Policy makers working in school leadership, management, and administration may also benefit from the volume.

part |22 pages

Introduction

part |119 pages

Priorities

chapter 3|21 pages

Experiences of student-teacher mothers before and during COVID-19

Lessons in flexibility

chapter 4|23 pages

Teaching through the menopause

A flexible work paradox

chapter 6|21 pages

Stories found within higher education

Shifting professional identities of academics

chapter 7|15 pages

Claiming professionalisation

Supporting Caribbean early childhood teachers' professional identities post-COVID-19

part |80 pages

Alliances

chapter 9|18 pages

New ways of working and new opportunities

Early childhood leaders' professional practice post-COVID

chapter 11|21 pages

Stacking stories as inquiry into practice

Co-teaching an online literacy club for youth

part |83 pages

Reimaginings

chapter 12|17 pages

What the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us about becoming a teacher

Lessons for post-pandemic realities

chapter 13|14 pages

Opportunities for modernising and revolutionising education systems post-COVID

Drawing on an international survey of teachers' experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic

chapter 16|15 pages

Post-COVID pedagogy

Intersectional identities and technological spaces

part |19 pages

Conclusion

chapter 17|17 pages

COVID-19

A catalyst for change