The global assault on teaching, teachers, and their unions : stories for resistance / Mary Compton and Lois Weiner, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Compton, Mary F.

Weiner, Lois.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Privatization in education--Cross-cultural studies.

Privatization in education.

Teachers' unions--Cross-cultural studies.

Teachers' unions.

Education and globalization--Cross-cultural studies.

Education and globalization.

Neoliberalism.

Neoliberalism--Cross-cultural studies.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 281 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

023060630X

9780230606302

0230606318

9780230606319

OCLC:

172521700

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