Table of Contents:
  • Part I, The contexts of teaching (1. The new teaching environments, 2. The person in the professional: learning, identity and emotional wellbeing), Part II, The professional lives of teachers (3. Critical influences on teacherʹs professional lives, 4. Portraits of beginning teachers: schools matter, 5. Managing tensions and transitions in the middle years of teaching: teachers at the crossroads, 6. Veteran teachers: sustaining commitment, exercising resilience), Part III Conditions for success (7. Teacher commitment: a necessary condition for success?, 8. Leadership effects, 9. Resilience counts, 10. Teachers who make a difference: new lives, old truths).