There Has to Be a Better Way Lessons from Former Urban Teachers.
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource (187 pages)
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword / 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 Day, Christopher --
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.
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Education, Urban--United States. Urban schools--United States. Teaching--Social aspects--United States.