Overview
- Outlines logistical and ideological challenges faced by educators committed to democracy
- Presents a diverse range of global and local perspectives from the education sector
- Discusses innovative ideas and solutions that can be adapted to a wide range of education practices
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About this book
This edited book brings together teachers and education academics who are committed to education about, for and through democracy. It presents a diverse range of viewpoints about the challenges facing educators working across different sectors and discusses ways to challenge issues like neoliberalism, excessive managerialism and accountability and privatisation. It also engages with the times that education has, and continues, to fail students.
This book outlines both logistical and ideological challenges which educators committed to democracy face and describes innovative approaches they have adopted, including networking, the use of social media and digital tools and extending their reach beyond their local communities to international audiences. It encourages conversations about how educators and academics might re-commit to education for democracy and generate further avenues for discussion and action by educators and academics.
This book outlines both logistical and ideological challenges which educators committed to democracy face and describes innovative approaches they have adopted, including networking, the use of social media and digital tools and extending their reach beyond their local communities to international audiences. It encourages conversations about how educators and academics might re-commit to education for democracy and generate further avenues for discussion and action by educators and academics.
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Keywords
- 'Teacher Bashing' in Australia
- Status of Teachers in Australia
- Teachers and Professionalism in Australia
- Professional Status of Teachers
- Teachers as Democracy Workers
- Teachers and Democracy in Australia
- initial Teacher Education in Australia
- Teacher Empowerment in Australia
- Teachers as Change Makers
- Challenges Facing Teachers
- Neoliberalism and Education in Australia
- Teacher Unions and Professional Development in Australia
- Flip the System in Education
- Education and Democracy
- Democracy in the Classroom
Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Challenges and Possibilities for Teacher Empowerment
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Empowered Teachers Enacting Democratic Practices
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Leveraging Teachers’ Collective Voices
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Empowering Teachers: Deliberate Processes
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Empowering Teachers: Beyond the Classroom
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr Keith Heggart is a former high school teacher and educational leader who worked for more than fifteen years in public, Catholic, and independent schools in Australia and in the United Kingdom. He is a Google-Certified Innovator, an Apple Distinguished Educator and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Keith has a long involvement with the trade union movement in education. He has designed learning materials for the Independent Education Union New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory (NSW/ACT), as well as working in digital organizing. Keith completed his PhD on the topic of exploring justice-oriented citizenship education amongst Australian school students. He works as an academic at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, in the initial teacher education program.
Mr Steven Kolber is a public government school teacher who has been teaching English, History and English Language for over a decade. He has recently been named a top 50 finalists in the Varkey Foundation’s Global Teacher Prize. He is passionate about teacher collaboration, which he supports through organising Teach Meets, running #edureading (an online academic reading group) and taking groups of teachers to Cambodia to run teacher development workshops with Teachers Across Borders Australia. He leverages technology to share teaching ideas and develop teachers through the ‘Teachers Educational Review’ podcast and his own YouTube channel ‘Mr Kolber’s Teaching’. He is especially interested in the future of education and the role for democracy within emerging technological futures. He researches and publishes around empowering teachers, professional learning via social media, and teachers engaging research.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Empowering Teachers and Democratising Schooling
Book Subtitle: Perspectives from Australia
Editors: Keith Heggart, Steven Kolber
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4464-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-4463-5Published: 14 September 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-4466-6Published: 15 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-4464-2Published: 13 September 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 277
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Education Policy, Sociology of Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership