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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...

Austerity as an opportunity for union revival: Quebec public school teachers 

Jean-Noel Grenier, Industrial Relations Dept, Laval University Quebec et al

22nd March 2016

This article proposes an account of how two teachers’ labour federations have been reacting to austerity measures in public education....

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...

Supporting Democratic Discourses of Teacher Professionalism: the case of the Alberta Teachers Association 

Pamela Osmond-Johnson, Assistant Professor, University of Regina, Canada

18th September 2015

This paper explores understandings related to teacher professionalism amongst a sample of highly engaged members of the Alberta Teacher’s...

That was the crisis: what is to be done to fix Irish education now? 

Fintan O'Mahony, ASTI standing committee, Ireland

8th July 2015

In 2008 Ireland found itself in the forefront of the Eurozone crisis. The impact on education has been profound. In this article it is...

Learning Lessons from Chicago 

Carol Caref, Chicago Teachers Union & Kristine Mayle, Chicago Teachers Union

8th July 2015

This article describes how the Chicago schools system has been bedeviled by the social conditions faced by the city’s inhabitants, and now...

Current developments in school education in Turkey: education 'reforms' and teacher trade union responses 

Halil Buyruk, Post-Doc Researcher, University of Ankara, Turkey

8th July 2015

Education ‘reforms’ have been accelerated in the last decade in Turkey. Teachers, as the main actors of the education system, have...

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...

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...

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