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Record Nr.

UNINA9910438341903321

Autore

Leavy Patricia

Titolo

Exploring Relational Professionalism in Schools / / by Anneli Frelin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Rotterdam : , : SensePublishers : , : Imprint : SensePublishers, , 2013

ISBN

9789462092471

9462092478

9789462092488

9462092486

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (140 p.)

Collana

Studies in Professional Life and Work ; ; 1

Disciplina

370

Soggetti

Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Teacher Professionality -- A Relational Approach -- The Exploration -- Teachers’ Relational Practices I -- Adding Analytical Layers I: Negotiating teacher-student educational relationships -- Teachers’ Relational Practices II -- Adding Analytical Layers II: Negotiating educational communities among students -- Teachers’ Practice and Relational Complexities -- Relational Professionalism in Schools -- References.

Sommario/riassunto

How is it that some teachers have just “got it”? They walk into a room and the atmosphere changes. They get through to students in a way that no-one else can. The author has sought answers to this question by observing and interviewing teachers from preschool to upper secondary school levels. Having intensively studied the highly influential but underestimated relational dimension of teaching, her contention is that these teachers successfully use relational practices to build educational relationships with their students and educational communities among them. Moreover, she finds that what may come across as a teacher’s personal traits is actually a sensible professional approach. These teachers haven’t “got it” - they “get it”. This book explains how teachers carry out their relational practices, and contains an abundance of everyday examples from all stages of education. The deep theoretical reasoning departs from these examples to create a



compelling argument for a teacher’s relational professionality that is possible to learn and teach. New relational perspectives and concepts are introduced for the purpose of facilitating professional conversations about the profound dimension of relationships in education.