Contents // List of figures ix // List of tables xi // Acknowledgements xii // Preface xiii // Introduction 1 // PART I // The contexts of teaching 7 // 1 The new teaching environments 9 // 2 The person in the professional: learning, identity and // emotional wellbeing 26 // PART II // The professional lives of teachers 41 // 3 Critical influences on teachers’ professional lives 43 // 4 Portraits of beginning teachers: schools matter 65 // 5 Managing tensions and transitions in the middle years of // teaching: teachers at the crossroads 84 // 6 Veteran teachers: sustaining commitment, exercising // resilience 102 // viii Contents // PART III // Conditions for success 125 // 7 Teacher commitment: a necessary condition for success? 127 // 8 Leadership effects 140 // 9 Resilience counts 156 // 10 Teachers who make a difference: new lives, old truths 177 // Appendix: the workline chart 195 // Notes 196 // Bibliography 197 // Index 220