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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...

A profession learning to become: the promise of collaboration between teacher organizations and academia 

J-C Couture, University of Alberta, Canada et al

18th October 2020

While the flourishing transdisciplinary field of futures studies has contributed to the production of educationalimaginaries and policy...

Trained to Resist: Teachers Learning "Lucha" in Oaxaca, Mexico 

Christian Alejandro Bracho, University of La Verne, USA

10th May 2020

Drawing on ethnographic data and interviews with 17 teacher educators and normal school students in Oaxaca, Mexico, this article examines a...

The Trinational Coalition in Defense of Public Education and the Challenges of International Teacher Solidarity 

Paul Bocking, School of Labour Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

10th May 2020

The ascendance of economic globalization, epitomized for the United States, Canada and Mexico by the North American Free Trade Agreement (...

“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...

“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...

From neoliberalism to structural racism: Problem framing in a teacher activist organization 

Rhiannon M. Maton, State University of New York College at Cortland, Cortland, NY

29th August 2018

Philadelphia’s teacher-led activist group, the Caucus of Working Educators, has displayed shifts in how it frames the centralproblems...

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....

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