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Dr Emma Towers is a lecturer in education policy at King’s College London. Emma was a primary school teacher in London before joining King’s. She now lectures on different MA programmes and on the PGCE. Her other research interests include teacher retention, education policy and postgraduate student experience of learning.
Understandings of teacher identity have remained consistent for the past two decades with a consensus that identity is dynamic, flexible and hybrid and is influenced by a range of individual...
Continue reading blog postRegistration for this event has now closed, please events@bera.ac.uk if you'd like to register. #BERA_Wellbeing Online event – pre-registration essential The wellbeing of students and...
The wellbeing of students and teachers is now an educational policy priority. Increasingly, teachers are held responsible for the wellbeing of their students and school managers are expected to...
Values and wellbeing Many teachers in England and Europe report the demands of their job harm their wellbeing (Education Support, 2019; ETUCE, 2011). Poor wellbeing is cited as a key reason why...
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