Teachers' Career Trajectories and Work Lives

1. Introduction to Teachers' Career Trajectories
Martin Bayer, Ulf Brinkkjær, Helle Plauborg, Simon Rolls

2. Teachers' Career Trajectories: An Examination of Research
Simon Rolls, Helle Plauborg

3. Career Stories as Gateway to Understanding Teacher Development
Geert Kelchtermans

4. Committed for Life? Variations in Teachers' Work, Lives and Effectiveness
Christopher Day, Pam Sammons, Qing Gu, Alison Kington, Gordon Stobart

5. On the Unacknowledged Significance of Teachers' Habitus and Dispositions
Jette Steensen

6. Teachers' Professional Learning and the Workplace Curriculum
Martin Bayer, Ulf Brinkkjær

7. Careers Under Stress: Teacher Adaptations at a Time of Intensive Reform
Geoff Troman, Peter Woods

8. Postscript to ‘Careers Under Stress: Teacher Adaptations at a Time of Intensive Reform’
Geoff Troman, Peter Woods

9. The Careers of Urban Teachers: A Synthesis of Findings from UCLA's Longitudinal Study of Urban Educators
Karen Hunter Quartz

10. Teacher Gender and Career Patterns
Mary Thornton, Patricia Bricheno

11. Regenerating Teachers
Corrie Stone-Johnson

12. Listening to Professional Life Stories: Some Cross-Professional Perspectives
Ivor Goodson

13. Epilogue: Teaching Professions in Restructuring Contexts
Sverker Lindblad

Keywords: Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Professional & Vocational Education