Breakdown: The Facts About Teacher Stress

by Cosgrove; John

• ISBN13: 9780415231961
• ISBN10: 0415231965
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-02-05
• Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

Summary

Between 1989 and 1999 half the teachers in England and Wales quit their posts. By the late nineties more than six thousand teachers a year were retiring early on grounds of ill health. In recent years hardly a school in the country has not lost at least one teacher because of a 'nervous breakdown'. Breakdownlooks at what is happening in teaching today. Why breakdowns have become so common, what it means to suffer a breakdown, and the consequences of this epidemic for schools and children. It suggests what teachers can do to help themselves, what schools should do to help their staff and the ways in which the local authorities can offer practical support.

Author Biography

John Cosgrove is a deputy headteacher with twenty years' experience of teaching in primary and secondary schools.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
List of Acronyms	xiii
Introduction	1	(8)
Breakdown	9	(18)
Stress	27	(21)
Teaching and stress	48	(19)
All change	67	(21)
The impossible task	88	(24)
The cost	112	(15)
Handling the crisis	127	(16)
The future	143	(11)
Postscript	154	(3)
Bibliography	157	(2)
Index	159