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Educational Folly Lisa M. Gonsalves

Educational Folly By Lisa M. Gonsalves

Educational Folly by Lisa M. Gonsalves


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Gonsalves offers a long overdue and comprehensive examination of public education reform, specifically, its impact on high need schools.

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Educational Folly: Teacher Well-Being and the Chaos of American Schooling by Lisa M. Gonsalves

Educational Folly: Teacher Well-Being and the Chaos of American Schooling, offers a comprehensive critique of educational reforms that have eroded the teacher's position. This leaves teachers with psychological scars - scars which are fueling the recent exodus from teaching. Gonsalves lays out a new vision for the future of education reform. This model centers around justice, community, and professionalism to return the teacher to the rightful head of the classroom and to restore dignity and progress to all of America's schools.

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Educational Folly: Teacher Well-Being and the Chaos of American Schooling by Dr. Lisa Gonsalves takes the reader on a clear and powerful journey into the struggles that American teachers face every day in schools across our country. Her book is a must-read primer for education policymakers, anyone considering the field of education, school board members, school administrators, and teacher leaders. Dr. Gonsalves picks apart how accountability systems, school culture, and trauma impact teacher wellness and health. Her suggestions to help reform our urban schools are both cogent and spot on. At the end of the book Dr. Gonsalves presents a brilliant recommendation to examine what education can learn from the field of nursing. Dr. Gonsalves has created a book that is an invitation for this country to consider the importance of teacher well-being and its impact on the children who sit in their classrooms.

-- Marla Kilfoyle, Grassroots Liaison for the Network for Public Education and Former Executive Director of Badass Teachers Association

The focus of Education Folly -- and especially the autonomy and dignity of teachers, which have been eroded badly in the course of recent years -- is terribly important. I hope the book is widely read.

-- Jonathan Kozol, National Book Award winner and author of Savage Inequalities and Death at an Early Age

About Lisa M. Gonsalves

Lisa M. Gonsalves, PhD, is Full Professor and Chair of the Curriculum and Instruction Department at the University of Massachusetts/Boston. She is also the long-time Director of the Teach Next Year, Teaching Residency Program.

Table of Contents

Dedication

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: So, You Want to Teach in a High Needs School? Family, Friends, and the Media

Chapter 2: The Impact of Accountability Systems on Teachers and School Culture

Chapter 3: Students: The Impact of Social-Emotional Struggles, Trauma, and Learning

Difficulties on Classroom Behavior

Chapter 4: What Ails the Children?

Chapter 5: Cognitive Complexity and the Need for Competence

Section Two: Teacher Health and Well-Being

Chapter 6: How Under-Resourced Schools Thwart Teachers' Basic Human Needs

Chapter 7: Emotions and Cognitive Dissonance: The Psychological Pain of Teaching

Chapter 8: Colleagues and the Need for Relatedness in Schools

Chapter 9: Teachers of Color and White Teachers' Experiences in Schools: Different Causes,

Similar Pain

Section Three: Reforming Urban Schools for Teacher and Student Well-Being

Chapter 10: Teacher Preparation: What Education Can Learn from the Field of Nursing

Chapter 11: School Culture and Environment: What Education can Learn from the Field of

Nursing

Chapter 12: Nurses, Teachers, and Clinical Microsystems

Bibliography

Additional information

NGR9781475855821
9781475855821
1475855826
Educational Folly: Teacher Well-Being and the Chaos of American Schooling by Lisa M. Gonsalves
New
Paperback
Rowman & Littlefield
2023-08-15
232
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