Stress, teaching and teacher health

Bowers, Tony

doi:10.1080/03004270485200361

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“…• decline in the quality of life and well being of individual teachers and headteachers, with many suffering health problems related to stress (Bowers 2004). Indeed, educators are reported as one of the six most stressed professions in the UK (Johnson et al 2005); • poor institutional morale and low levels of organisational trust, with heads and teachers alike suffering from reform fatigue and increased cynicism about the seeming never-ending policy churn (Troman 2000;Harris 2007); and…”

Section: The 'Truth' About Headteacher Stressmentioning

confidence: 97%

Answering back to policy? Headteachers’ stress and the logic of the sympathetic interview

Thomson

2008

Journal of Education Policy

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Section: The 'Truth' About Headteacher Stressmentioning

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Answering back to policy? Headteachers’ stress and the logic of the sympathetic interview

Thomson

2008

Journal of Education Policy

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“…Current research on teachers' positions primarily focuses on the constraints of standards objectives. Bowers (2004) found that his teachers felt they had little room to make their own decisions in any aspect of the standards objectives. When considering the SAT objectives teachers appear predominantly to feel forced to conform.…”

Section: Today's Implementation Of the Standards Agendamentioning

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Perspectives on the standards agenda: exploring the agenda's impact on primary teachers' professional identities

Brown

Manktelow

2015

Education 3-13

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This study aimed to investigate teachers' perspectives on the practical implementation of the standards agenda and its impact on their professional identities. Q-methodology was used alongside semi-structured interviews with UK primary school teachers. The study explored the views of 25 teachers in 6 schools, selected through purposive sampling to give a range of individual and institutional demographics. Teachers in this research commented on the impact the standards agenda has had on parental and societal judgements that affect their identity as professionals. Teachers held differing positions on whether they experienced constraint or flexibility when implementing standards objectives. These differing positions were mainly influenced by whether they taught above or below Year 3. Teachers who found flexibility in the agenda's objectives had less occupational stress and increased ownership of their own actions and the standards agenda. Teachers' positions were complex and changed according to situational influences at a classroom level.

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“…Within the field of education, several studies have explored the increasing levels of stress that teachers experience, the consequences on their health and careers, and ultimately on retention and recruitment (Bowers 2004;Howard and Johnson 2004;Kyriacou 2001).…”

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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) for Primary School Teachers

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Stress within the teaching profession has a negative impact on the health and well-being of individual teachers and on retention and recruitment for the profession as a whole. There is increasing literature to suggest that Mindfulness is a useful intervention to address a variety of psychological problems, and that Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a particularly helpful intervention for stress. We investigated the effects of teaching a MBSR course to primary school teachers to reduce stress. The MBSR course was taught to a group of primary school teachers and evaluated to establish its effects on levels of anxiety, depression, and stress, as well as movement towards a stated goal and changes in awareness. The results showed improvement for most participants for anxiety, depression, and stress, some of which were statistically significant. There were also significant improvements on two of the four dimensions of a mindfulness skills inventory. These results suggest that this approach could be a potentially cost-effective method to combat teacher stress and burnout.

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Stress, teaching and teacher health

Cited by 16 publications

References 7 publications

Answering back to policy? Headteachers’ stress and the logic of the sympathetic interview

Answering back to policy? Headteachers’ stress and the logic of the sympathetic interview

Perspectives on the standards agenda: exploring the agenda's impact on primary teachers' professional identities

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) for Primary School Teachers

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