Social Support, Well-being, and Teacher Development
This book uses social support as a central theme to provide a sound underpinning for guiding teachers to play more supportive roles in schools. It comprises a series of empirical studies that address the psychological processes involved in feeling support
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Social Support, Well-being, and Teacher Development
Social Support, Well-being, and Teacher Development “The main theme of the book—social support, fits well to the present society for the needs of promoting well-being and healthy life style among people. The book presents an interdisciplinary investigation while it is a reader-friendly text for the general public.” —Dr. POON Wai Kit, Medical practitioner “Wonderful conceptualization of teachers as social support givers. Great contribution to the field of teacher development. Fantastic resource for those interested in how social support enhances the well-being of learners and educators.” —Dr. Alfredo Bautista, National Institute of Education (Singapore) “Lam argued in this book that teachers’ role remain very important—teachers are encouraged to continue to give social support to students, to enhance the well-being of students; and, in return, teachers will be rewarded with emotional satisfaction.” —Mr. TANG Wai Chung, Solicitor
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Social Support, Well-being, and Teacher Development
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Bick-har LAM The Education University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, Hong Kong
ISBN 978-981-13-3575-4 ISBN 978-981-13-3577-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3577-8
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Foreword I
Humans are first a social species, and though we might often not be very sociable, we rely on others in almost all that we do. Our social behaviour is embedded within both our biological and our cultural systems: biological in that we form pair bonds to reproduce and the resulting families mostly stay tog
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