The global assault on teaching, teachers, and their unions : stories for resistance
Mary Compton and Lois Weiner, eds.
| Year of publication: |
2008 ; 1. ed
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| Other Persons: | Compton, Mary F. (contributor) ; Weiner, Lois (contributor) |
| Publisher: |
New York, NY [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan |
| Subject: | Lehrkräfte | Teaching profession | Arbeitsbedingungen | Working conditions | Gewerkschaft | Trade union | Gewerkschaftspolitik | Union behaviour | Schulpolitik | School policy | Bildungsreform | Education reform | Welt | World | Neoliberalismus | Bildungspolitik | Lehrer | Lehrergewerkschaft |
| Description of contents: | Table of Contents [gbv.de] ; Table of Contents [loc.gov] ; Description [loc.gov] ; Description [loc.gov] |
| Extent: | XIII, 281 S. |
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| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Type of publication (narrower categories): | Aufsatzsammlung ; Sammelwerk ; Collection of articles of several authors |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Enth. 27 Beitr. Introduction / by Mary Compton and Lois Weiner -- "Remaking the world": neo-liberalism and the transformation of education and teachers' labor / by Susan Robertson -- Education reform under strangulation / by John Nyambe (Namibia) -- Teaching for the factory: neo-liberalism in Mexican education / by Rodolfo Rincones, Elaine Hampton, and Cesar Silva -- Neo-liberal education in Denmark / by Jetta Steensen -- University of the West Indies and GATS / by Margueritte Williams -- The education world is not flat: neo-liberalism's global project and teacher unions' transnational resistance / by Larry Kuehn -- Teachers and their unions: why social class "counts" / by Kathleen A. Murphey -- Campaign against the opening of city academies in England / by Ian Murch -- An inner-city public school teacher's story from China / by Yihuai Cai -- What teachers want from their unions: what we know from research / by Nina Bascia (North America) -- Challenging neo-liberalism: education unions in Australia / by Rob Durbridge -- Contradictions and tensions in the place of teachers in educational reform: reflections upon the role of teachers in recent educational reforms in the US and Namibia / by Ken Zeichner ... |
| ISBN: | 0-230-60630-X ; 0-230-60631-8 ; 978-0-230-60630-2 ; 978-0-230-60631-9 |
| Classification: | Lehrpersonal, Erziehungspersonal |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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