The global assault on teaching, teachers, and their unions : stories for resistance
Increasingly public education's character is under assault. This collection of essays by noted scholars, teacher activists, and teacher union leaders from around the world fuses personal stories, research, and political analysis, explaining why such profound and damaging changes are being made to schools and teaching, and how teachers, their unions, and supporters of public education can make real the goal of quality education for all the world's children
Cross-cultural studies
1 online resource (xiii, 281 pages)
9780230611702, 9780230606319, 9780230606302, 0230611702, 0230606318, 023060630X
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The global assault on teaching, teachers, and teacher unions / Mary Compton and Lois Weiner
"Remaking the world": neo-liberalism and the transformation of education and teachers' labor / Susan Robertson
Education reform under strangulation / John Nyambe (Namibia)
Teaching for the factory: neo-liberalism in Mexican education / Rodolfo Rincones, Elaine Hampton, and Cesar Silva
Neo-liberal education in Denmark / Jetta Steensen
Higher and tertiary education in the West Indies: ensnared by GATS / Margueritte Williams
The education world is not flat: neo-liberalism's global project and teacher unions' transnational resistance / Larry Kuehn
Teachers and their unions: why social class "counts" / Kathleen A. Murphey
Campaign against the opening of city academies in England / Ian Murch
An inner-city public school teacher's story from China / Yihuai Cai
What teachers want from their unions: what we know from research / Nina Bascia
Challenging neo-liberalism: education unions in Australia / Rob Durbridge
Contradictions and tensions in the place of teachers in educational reform: reflections upon the role of teachers in recent educational reforms in the US and Namibia / Ken Zeichner
Universalization of elementary education in India: a dream deferred is a dream denied / Basanti Chakraoborty
Educational restructuring, democratic education, and teachers / Alvaro Moreira Hypolito
Sodexho in the Chicago public schools / Kyle Westbrook
Homophobia in St. Lucian schools: a perspective from a select group of teachers / Urban Dolor
Work on aboriginal education in a social justice union: reflections from the inside / Chris Stewart
South African teachers and social movements: old and new / Shermain Mannah and Jon Lewis
Schooling and class in Germany: an interview with Eberhardt Brand and Susanne Gondermann / Mary Compton
Education or mind infection? / Nurit Peled-Elhanan
Interview with Thulas Nxesi, president of the Education International / Mary Compton
The context of teachers' democratic movements in Mexico / Rodolfo Rincones
In Mexico, to defend education as a social right, we must fight for union democracy / Maria de la Luz Arriaga Lemus
A history of the search for teacher unity in South Africa / Harold Samuel
British teacher unions and the Blair government: anatomy of an abusive relationship / Mary Compton
Building the international movement we need: why a consistent defense of democracy and equality is essential / Lois Weiner
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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