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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...

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...

ICTs in Language and Literacy education in Bangladesh 

Sardar M Anwaruddin, Doctoral Student, OISE, University of Toronto

30th March 2015

 The advancement of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has challenged the traditional notion of literacy as print-based...

Why do governments adopt neoliberal education policies? Critical theory on policy movement in the context of contemporary reform in Mexico 

Paul Bocking, Teacher, teaching union & community activist. PhD candidate at York University, Canada

2nd February 2015

Both the fields of critical human geography and comparative education have developed substantial thinking on the spread of neoliberal...

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...

Exporting the “Violence of Literacy”: Education According to UNESCO and The World Bank 

Claude Hurlbert, Professor of Composition Theory, Unviersity of Indiana, US & Anestine Hector Mason, Senior Research Scientist, American Institute of Research

15th October 2014

In this article, the authors argue that the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and UNESCO work together to promote literacy which...

Standing up for Education: Building a National Campaign 

Gawain Little, Executive Member, National Union of Teachers, UK & Kevin Courtney, Deputy General Secretary, National Union of Teachers, UK

18th September 2014

This article is reproduced by kind permission of FORUM, Vol 56, No 2, 2014.Over the past four years the UK government has made significant...

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