What is it about?
This article is about the the stressors preschool teachers experience. It looks at key themes emerging from eight teachers' descriptions and stories about their experiences of stress. These teachers talk about the internal demands they place upon themselves as well as the external demands from organisations and society.
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Why is it important?
There is a commonly held view that early childhood teachers just play all day, or just babysit children. Actually preschool teachers, early childhood teachers do so much more than that. It is important to ensure that we value the early years of life and the role preschool teachers and other early educators make, and that we as a society, and as part of educational organisations, offer support for teachers and value the work they do.
Perspectives
This article originated from my Masters Research. I was interested in teachers' perspectives and reflections. I was also interested in methods of journalling and arts-based representation for enabling communication about everyday sources of stress. The themes that emerged were related to time pressures, meeting children's needs, dealing with non-teaching tasks, maintaining early childhood philosophy and practice, meeting personal needs, issues with parents of the children, interpersonal relationships, and attitudes and perceptions about early childhood programs.
Dr Alison (Ali) L Black
University of the Sunshine Coast
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This page is a summary of: Preschool teachers' experiences of stress, Teaching and Teacher Education, July 1995, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/0742-051x(94)00038-8.
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