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True Grit? Making a Scientific Object and Pedagogical Tool 

Christopher Kirchgasler, University of Kansas

8th March 2019

The educability of personal qualities has garnered attention for its potential to raise student achievement. This investigation asks how...

“Rejecting the Universal to Protect the Local”: Oaxacan Teachers Battle against Global Education Reforms 

Christian A. Bracho, LaFetra College of Education, University of La Verne, CA

21st February 2019

Drawing on ethnographic data and interviews with 45 teachers, teacher trainers, and union officials in Oaxaca, Mexico, this article...

The Mexican teachers' movement in the context of neoliberal education policy and strategies for resistance 

Paul Bocking, School of Labour Studies McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario Canada.

21st February 2019

Mexican teachers experienced an intensification of neoliberal education policy during the sexenio of President Enrique Peña Nieto of 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...

Teacher, Union and Human Rights: A Seminar on Global Solidarity In Memory of Mary Compton 

National Union of Teachers (Organizational author)

5th January 2019

This is a full event report written by the National Union of Teachers about its conference "Teacher, Union and Human Rights: A Seminar on...

Labour geographies of socially embedded work: the multi-scalar resistance of Mexican teachers 

Paul Bocking, University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)

11th July 2018

Public sector workers experience particular challenges from their employer, the government, when they organize and take collective action....

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...

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