Teachers as health workers: Patterns and imperatives of Australian teachers’ work

摘要: With increasing cross-sectoral relationships and partnerships the blurring of boundaries various service sectors (Westall 2009), membrane that is assumed separate education health in terms young people’s wellbeing looks thinner than ever. In this project we are concerned to know what teachers do health, how much time they spend doing it, extent work might be considered as work? The paper informed by a Likert style survey semi-structured interview data collected from large cohort employed different school across Queensland, Australia framed Bourdieu’s (1977) ideas around field, practice doxa. suggest teachers, often with minimum training undertake categorised so high degree commitment growing sense urgency but concerns related their competence. We consider it important understand reasons why which engage more readily associated public ask “are workers?”