International Perspectives on Teacher Well-Being and Diversity: Portals Into Innovative Classroom Practice

Dr. Timothy Murphy is a Lecturer in Educational Research and Policy at the School of Education, University of Limerick. He is a Graduate of Teachers College, Columbia University, New York and has researched and worked in a number of educational contexts, including England, the USA and Ireland. He has published widely in the field of education, on topics ranging from education policy and reform, to disadvantage in education, as well as on teacher pedagogical well-being. The latter led to his participation in a three-year Erasmus+ EU project on Teacher Well-being and Diversity which provided the inspiration for this book. Professor Patricia Mannix-McNamara is head of the School of Education at the University of Limerick in Ireland. Her experience spans school leadership, systems leadership, organizational culture and climate, workplace wellbeing in education and organizational behaviours and she is widely published in these fields. She serves as an advisor to national bodies and has championed school health promotion for two decades. She is the joint chair of the National Behaviour in Organisations Research Group (BORG) with her colleague Dr. Margaret Hodgins in the National University of Ireland Galway. Her motivation in this text is to place wellbeing, for both teachers and students, at the heart of teaching culture.