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Professional Knowledge and Educational Restructuring in Europe

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Ivor F. Goodson

    1. University of Brighton, UK

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  2. Sverker Lindblad

    1. University of Gothenburg, Sweden

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  • Written by experts, Gives a modern approach, Comprehensive in Scope

Part of the book series: Studies in Professional Life and Work (SPLW, volume 4)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Researching The Teaching Profession Under Restructuring

    • Sverker Lindblad, Ivor Goodson
    Pages 1-10

  3. “We’ve Come Full Circle”

    • Caroline Norrie, Ivor Goodson
    Pages 11-24

  4. Some General Developments in The Restructuring of Ducation And Health Care Professions in Europe

    • Dennis Beach
    Pages 25-39

  5. Teachers’ Working Life Under Restructuring

    • Peter Sohlberg, Magdalena Czaplicka, Sverker Lindblad
    Pages 41-63

  6. European Schoolteachers’ Work And Life Under Restructuring

    • Jörg Müller, Caroline Norrie, Fernando Hernández, Juana M. Sancho, Amalia Creus, Verónica Larraín
    Pages 65-79

  7. Teachers’ Experiences of Restructuring

    • Jorge Ávila De Lima, Jarmo Houtsonen, Ari Antikainen
    Pages 81-97

  8. Conclusions

    • Ivor Goodson, Sverker Lindblad
    Pages 99-109
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European welfare institutions such as education and health care are restructuring their organisations in terms of decentralisation, deregulation, privatization and so forth. As a consequence professional positions and demands on professional competencies in these institutions are in transition. At the same time European societies are changing in different ways, e.g. in terms of a "knowledge society" as well as in demographic and cultural changes. Professionals such as teachers and nurses are meeting such changes in their work with students and clients.Thus, there is a need to study these transitions and changes. Here we are doing this from a "bottom-up" perspective where we are comparing experiences in different institutional and national contexts. This study combines two kinds of narrative research; a study of the systemic narratives produced by governments who are restructuring educational systems and the life history narratives of those professionals working within those systems and their perspectives on ongoing restructuring.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Brighton, UK

    Ivor F. Goodson

  • University of Gothenburg, Sweden

    Sverker Lindblad

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