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Platform Capitalism Colonizes Education 

Larry Kuehn, Research Director, retired, British Columbia Teachers Federation

28th November 2020

More than ever, platforms are imposing themselves in our everyday lives: in our relationships, in our workplaces, and importantly, in the...

Understanding the threat of "personalized learning"  

Alison McDowell, Independent researcher: https://wrenchinthegears.com/

16th February 2019

This article responds to the National Education Policy Center’s e-newsletter confronting the growing backlash against “personalized...

“Education resistance: Activist media in struggles for public education,” special issue of Postcolonial Directions in Education 

Nisha Thapliyal, School of Education at the University of Newcastle, Australia

20th January 2019

Postcolonial Directions in Education, (Volume 7 Issue 2, 2018) is a themed issue entitled “Education resistance: Activist media in...

Urban Teachers’ Online Dissent Produces Cultural Resources of Relevance to Teacher Education  

Trevor Thomas Stewart, Virginia Tech & George L. Boggs, Florida State University

29th August 2018

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Portuguese Translation of Review of World Bank Document: Great Teachers 

Lois weiner, professor of education, New Jersey University, USA

15th June 2016

This is a Portuguese translation of a critical review of the World Bank document: Great Teachers: How to raise student learning in Latin...

Comprendiendo los objetivos y supuestos del reporte del Banco Mundial, “Profesores Excelentes: Cómo elevar el aprendizaje de los estudiantes en Latinoamérica y el Caribe” 

lois weiner, professor of education, New Jersey University, USA & mary compton, independent researcher, UK

15th June 2016

Analizamos de qué manera los sindicatos de maestros en otros lugares del mundo están respondiendo de manera general al movimiento Global de...

Scrutinising how the World Bank's project for educational reform in Latin America and the Caribbean substitutes ideology for evidence 

Lois Weiner, Director, Urban Education and Teacher Unionism Policy Project, New Jersey City University, US & Mary Compton, Independent Scholar, www.teachersolidarity.com, UK

4th January 2016

In July 2014, the World Bank released Great Teachers: How to raise student learning in Latin America and the Caribbean. In its six chapters...

Global Education 'Reform': Building Resistance and Solidarity 

Gawain Little, Executive Member, National Union of Teachers, UK

7th December 2015

This edited volume brings together education academics and activists from around the world, who describe the effects of corporate education...

School and young people in Greece at times of crisis: the repercussions of memorandum policies 

Pavlos Charamis, President of Centre for Research and Documentation at OLME, Greece & Themis Kotsifakis, President of OLME, Greece

8th July 2015

Greece constitutes, in many respects, an indicative case of implementing neoliberal policies in Εurope in the main sectors of politics and...

Education in a World Racked by Crisis 

Susan Robertson , Director of the Centre for Education, Globalisation and Societies, University of Bristol, UK

8th July 2015

The author argues that there have been major challenges to, and changes in, the role that education now plays in societies around the world...

Deficit Discourse, Urban Teachers' Work and the Blame Game 

Heido Pitzer, Visiting Faculty, St Lawrence University

30th April 2015

This dissertation explores how urban public school teachers navigate the contradictory social position of having little power over their...

The Global Education Reform Movement and the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA): A secondary Analysis of PISA Data 

Dan Murphy, Masters Student, University of Oulo, Finland

8th January 2015

By doing a secondary analysis of the data produced by PISA in 2006 and 2009, the author sets out to show that the relevant reports do not...

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