Joyful Resilience as Educational Practice: Transforming Teaching Challenges into Opportunities - Paperback

by Michelle Hughes (Editor), Ken Badley (Editor)

This book offers a foundation from which to reframe obstacles to teaching as opportunities for personal and professional growth. As this book demonstrates, a perspective that acknowledges the tensions and realities of various teaching contexts prepares educators to teach for the long haul, and to teach with joy.

Author Biography

Michelle C. Hughes has served as a junior high teacher, high school administrator, and Education Department faculty member at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. Michelle embraces promoting the teaching profession with Westmont students and the larger educational community. She is passionate about equipping teachers for long-term career success with dispositions such as resilience, compassion, empathy, and gratitude.

Ken Badley lives in Calgary, Alberta, and teaches foundations of education at Tyndale University in Toronto, Ontario. He has taught in secondary, undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs in Canada and the United States and has worked extensively with teachers in Kenya. He is the author of many books and articles related to curriculum, instruction, and the teaching vocation.