About The Research
Aims
This research project aims to investigate how early career teachers negotiate and deal with challenges to their personal and professional wellbeing during their first years of teaching. This will be achieved by undertaking research (in conjunction with eight industry partners) with early career teachers in metropolitan, rural and remote areas in two Australian states: Western Australia and South Australia.
The research specifically aims:
- To develop a 'human resilience' theoretical framework to study the complex lives of early career teachers to identify the practices, processes and resources they use to engage productively with the challenges of their profession.
- To identify the range of circumstances (influenced by socio-cultural and systemic school policies and practices, personal dispositions and life events) that put early career teachers ‘at risk’ of leaving the profession.
- To better understand the dynamic and complex interplay between individual, relational and contextual conditions that operates over time to promote teacher resilience.
- To identify specific policies, practices and resources that best promote early career teacher resilience.