Sustaining the Employment of Early Childhood Teachers in Long Day Care: A Case for Robust Hope, Critical Imagination and Critical Action

Autor/in	Sumsion, Jennifer
Titel	Sustaining the Employment of Early Childhood Teachers in Long Day Care: A Case for Robust Hope, Critical Imagination and Critical Action
Quelle	In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 35 (2007) 3, S.311-327 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1359-866X
Schlagwörter	Teacher Employment; Faculty Mobility; Teacher Persistence; Job Satisfaction; Imagination; Children; Child Care; Early Childhood Education; Foreign Countries; Teacher Effectiveness; Teacher Education; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Child; Kind; Kinder; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Ausland; Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Australien
Abstract	This article is concerned with the sustainability of the employment of qualified teachers in the Australian long day care sector in the light of the dual pressures of poor pay and conditions, relative to schools, and the commercialisation of the sector and consequent vested interests in containing staffing costs. Eschewing the usual, narrow focus on teacher attrition, it instead conceptualises the long day care sector as rhizomatic with multiple entry points for addressing the staffing shortfall and the sustainability of teacher employment. Identifying emerging critical communities of early childhood teachers as a potential entry point, the article focuses on teachers in long day care who are seeking to address a source of their job dissatisfaction. In challenging regulatory requirements that they perceive to be excessive, these teachers embody "robust hope", "critical imagination" and "critical action". (Contains 2 notes.) (Author).
Anmerkungen	Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 325 Chestnut Street Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Fax: 215-625-2940; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/default.html
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10