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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...

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...

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...

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...

Moments or a movement? Teachers resistance to neoliberal education reform 

Brian Horn, Assistant Professor in Elementary Literacy, Illinois State University, US

17th September 2014

 This article is reproduced by kind permission of FORUM: Volume 56, No,2 2014Public school teachers in the USA are working in an era of...

Campaigning against Neo-liberal Education in Britain 

Bernard Regan, Past Executive Member UK National Union of Teachers

2nd June 2014

The author outlines the development of neo-liberal education policies in the UK, including privatisation, local management, standardised...

Global Perspectives on School Readiness 

Roseanne Pugh, Primary Headteacher, Graduate Student

19th January 2014

 The author critically analyses the concept of 'school readiness' in an early years context by comparing her experience of education '...

Neo-liberalism and Education 

E. Wayne Ross, Professor, Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of British Columbia, Canada & Rich Gibson, Associate Professor, University of San Diego, US

19th November 2013

This is the full text of  the award-winning book Neoliberalism and Education Reform, which describes in accessible language the nature of...

Introduction. In E. W. Ross & R. Gibson (Eds.), Neoliberalism and education reform 

E. Wayne Ross, Professor of Education, University of British Columbia, Canada & Rich Gibson, Associate Professor, San Diego State University, US

19th November 2013

This introductory chapter to the award-winning book Neoliberalism and Education Reform, describes in accessible language the nature of...

Defending Public Schools: The nature and limits of standards based reform and assessment 

Sandra Mathison, Professor of Education, University of British Columbia, Canada & E. Wayne Ross, Professor of Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of British Columbia, Canada

18th November 2013

Educational standards and assessment practices are the engine driving the historic changes public schools are experiencing today. This...

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