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Demoralized
Why Teachers Leave the Profession They Love and How They Can Stay
- 224 pages
- English
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About this book
Demoralized: Why Teachers Leave the Profession They Love and How They Can Stay offers a timely analysis of professional dissatisfaction that challenges the common explanation of burnout. Featuring the voices of educators, the book offers concrete lessons for practitioners, school leaders, and policy makers on how to think more strategically to retain experienced teachers and make a difference in the lives of students.
Based on ten years of research and interviews with practitioners across the United States, the book theorizes the existence of a “moral center” that can be pivotal in guiding teacher actions and expectations on the job. Education philosopher Doris Santoro argues that demoralization offers a more precise diagnosis that is born out of ongoing value conflicts with pedagogical policies, reform mandates, and school practices. Demoralized reveals that this condition is reversible when educators are able to tap into authentic professional communities and shows that individuals can help themselves.
Detailed stories from veteran educators are included to illustrate the variety of contexts in which demoralization can occur. Based on these insights, Santoro offers an array of recommendations and promising strategies for how school leaders, union leaders, teacher groups, and individual practitioners can enact and support “re-moralization” by working to change the conditions leading to demoralization.
Based on ten years of research and interviews with practitioners across the United States, the book theorizes the existence of a “moral center” that can be pivotal in guiding teacher actions and expectations on the job. Education philosopher Doris Santoro argues that demoralization offers a more precise diagnosis that is born out of ongoing value conflicts with pedagogical policies, reform mandates, and school practices. Demoralized reveals that this condition is reversible when educators are able to tap into authentic professional communities and shows that individuals can help themselves.
Detailed stories from veteran educators are included to illustrate the variety of contexts in which demoralization can occur. Based on these insights, Santoro offers an array of recommendations and promising strategies for how school leaders, union leaders, teacher groups, and individual practitioners can enact and support “re-moralization” by working to change the conditions leading to demoralization.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1. âWe Have Been Taken Away from Our Own Rewardâ: The Moral Sources of Teacher Dissatisfaction
- 2. âWe Should All Be So Embarrassedâ: Distinguishing Demoralization from Burnout
- 3. âTheyâre Suffering and Theyâre Strugglingâ: Sources of Demoralization: Causing Harm to Students
- 4. âIâm Admitting to Being Disingenuous in My Craftâ: Sources of Demoralization: Degrading the Profession
- 5. âI Canât Be That Kind of Teacherâ: Re-Moralizing Strategies for Career Longevity
- 6. School Leaders: Sources of Demoralization and Re-Moralization
- 7. Teacher Unions: Sources of Demoralization and Re-Moralization
- 8. Harnessing the Power of Re-Moralization
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Index