Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Foreword
- Introduction: Burnout and the Teaching Profession
- PART ONE TEACHER BURNOUT: A CRITICAL REVIEW AND SYNTHESIS
- PART TWO TEACHER BURNOUT: PERSPECTIVES AND REMEDIES
- 7 Inconsequentiality – The Key to Understanding Teacher Burnout
- 8 Turning Our Schools into a Healthier Workplace: Bridging Between Professional Self-Efficacy and Professional Demands
- 9 Teaching Career: Between Burnout and Fading Away? Reflections from a Narrative and Biographical Perspective
- 10 A Psychosocial Interpretation of Teacher Stress and Burnout
- 11 Burnout Among Teachers as a Crisis in Psychological Contracts
- 12 Progress in Understanding Teacher Burnout
- 13 Teachers' Moral Purpose: Stress, Vulnerability, and Strength
- 14 Teacher Burnout from a Social-Cognitive Perspective: A Theoretical Position Paper
- 15 Professional Identity, School Reform, and Burnout: Some Reflections on Teacher Burnout
- 16 Conflicting Mindscapes and the Inevitability of Stress in Teaching
- 17 Do Teachers Burn Out More Easily? A Comparison of Teachers with Other Social Professions on Work Stress and Burnout Symptoms
- 18 Teacher Burnout
- PART THREE TEACHER BURNOUT: A RESEARCH AND INTERVENTION AGENDA
- References
- Index
15 - Professional Identity, School Reform, and Burnout: Some Reflections on Teacher Burnout
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Foreword
- Introduction: Burnout and the Teaching Profession
- PART ONE TEACHER BURNOUT: A CRITICAL REVIEW AND SYNTHESIS
- PART TWO TEACHER BURNOUT: PERSPECTIVES AND REMEDIES
- 7 Inconsequentiality – The Key to Understanding Teacher Burnout
- 8 Turning Our Schools into a Healthier Workplace: Bridging Between Professional Self-Efficacy and Professional Demands
- 9 Teaching Career: Between Burnout and Fading Away? Reflections from a Narrative and Biographical Perspective
- 10 A Psychosocial Interpretation of Teacher Stress and Burnout
- 11 Burnout Among Teachers as a Crisis in Psychological Contracts
- 12 Progress in Understanding Teacher Burnout
- 13 Teachers' Moral Purpose: Stress, Vulnerability, and Strength
- 14 Teacher Burnout from a Social-Cognitive Perspective: A Theoretical Position Paper
- 15 Professional Identity, School Reform, and Burnout: Some Reflections on Teacher Burnout
- 16 Conflicting Mindscapes and the Inevitability of Stress in Teaching
- 17 Do Teachers Burn Out More Easily? A Comparison of Teachers with Other Social Professions on Work Stress and Burnout Symptoms
- 18 Teacher Burnout
- PART THREE TEACHER BURNOUT: A RESEARCH AND INTERVENTION AGENDA
- References
- Index
Summary
The reflections on teacher burnout in this chapter are inspired mainly by the contributions of Byrne and Miller. Taking these two as a starting point, I offer comments related to three different perspectives on teacher burnout: the sociological, psychological, and organizational perspectives. The first comment concerns the absence of a sociological perspective. My argument is that factors at the macro level of society are important to the analysis and explanation of teacher burnout. My second comment concerns the psychological perspective and the personality factors included in the model of burnout tested in Byrne's study. I argue that specific teacher-related personality factors must be taken into account to explain teacher burnout. My third comment concerns the organizational perspective on teacher burnout and the impact of working conditions on teacher stress, dissatisfaction, and workload. I argue that burnout can often be traced to a particular combination of school organization and teachers' professional orientation. In closing, I reflect on Miller's idea that some new forms of learning can provide a buffer against burnout and report on the results of research into the innovative capacity of schools. These findings confirm Miller's claim that teacher learning and development are contextually determined.
The Sociological Perspective
In Byrne's as well as in Miller's contributions, teacher burnout is analyzed from an organizational and/or social-psychological perspective. The impact of social developments on the well-being and life of teachers is neglected.
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- Understanding and Preventing Teacher BurnoutA Sourcebook of International Research and Practice, pp. 247 - 255Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999
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