Teaching resilience: a narrative inquiry into the importance of teacher resilience
File version
Accepted Manuscript (AM)
Author(s)
Pendergast, Donna
Garvis, Susanne
Griffith University Author(s)
Primary Supervisor
Other Supervisors
Editor(s)
Date
Size
File type(s)
Location
License
Abstract
This study set out to explore how high school teachers perceive their resilience as they teach a scripted social and emotional learning program to students with the goal of promoting the resilience skills of the students in their pastoral care classes. In this emerging field of research on teacher resilience, there is a paucity of research regarding the resilience of high school teachers in regard to the roles they must fulfill outside of their main function as a subject specialist teacher. In particular, a key role of pastoral care teacher is often layered on to teacher work and there is little professional support provided. This qualitative study took place over eighteen months in an independent faith-based Preparatory to Year 12 School in Queensland, Australia. It employed a narrative inquiry case study that engaged with teachers, managers, and parents. The data collection consisted of a series of three in-depth interviews for each of the seven participant teachers, field notes, and a researcher journal. The data are analyzed by reflecting the themes that occur in the teachers’ stories. The findings reveal that these high school teachers had some tacit knowledge of their resilience, that is, they identified common factors from the literature that constitute resilience in their personal life; however, they did not explicitly apply this knowledge to their professional practices.
Journal Title
Pastoral Care in Education: An International Journal of Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Conference Title
Book Title
Edition
Volume
33
Issue
4
Thesis Type
Degree Program
School
Publisher link
Patent number
Funder(s)
Grant identifier(s)
Rights Statement
Rights Statement
© 2015 Taylor & Francis (Routledge). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Pastoral Care in Education: An International Journal of Personal, Social and Emotional development on 18 Aug 2015, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/02643944.2015.1074265
Item Access Status
Note
Access the data
Related item(s)
Subject
Teacher education and professional development of educators
Teacher and student wellbeing
Education systems
Specialist studies in education