Building and Sustaining a Teaching Career: Strategies for Professional Experience, Wellbeing and Mindful Practice - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Narelle Lemon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education at Swinburne University with research areas focused on participation and engagement. She explores this through a variety of avenues including creativity and arts education, positive psychology specifically aimed at mindfulness practice and coping strategies, and social media use for learning and professional development. Narelle blogs at www.exploreandcreateco.com on mindfulness and self-care, Tweets as @Rellypops and curates an online project to promote stories of how mindfulness are applied to people's lives from various disciplines in the community on Instagram through @exploreandcreateco.

Sharon McDonough is a Senior Lecturer and researcher in initial teacher education and teacher development in the School of Education at Federation University Australia. Sharon draws on socio-cultural theories of teacher emotion and resilience that she brings to aims of i) how to best prepare and support teachers for entry into the profession; and ii) how to support teacher, and teacher educator, professional learning across the lifespan of their careers.