Professional networks, collegial support, and school leaders: How physical education teachers manage reality shock, marginalization, and isolation in a decentralized school system

• Published in: European physical education review Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 74 - 90
• Main Authors: Ferry, Magnus, Westerlund, Runa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.02.2023
• Subjects: Attrition; Beginning Teachers; Collegiality; Coping; decentralized school system; Experienced Teachers; Faculty Development; Faculty Mobility; Foreign Countries; Guidance; induction; Networks; novice teachers; Physical Education Teachers; Professional Autonomy; Professional Isolation; retention; Social Support Groups; Stress Variables; Teacher Persistence; Sweden; decentralized school system; induction; experienced teachers; Attrition; retention; novice teachers

There are many factors and duties that novice teachers do not know about when they enter the profession. Isolation, for instance, affects physical education (PE) teachers because the position often comes with a secluded workplace adjacent to the gym and through the subject's marginalization. Th...