The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers, and their Unions

1. Front Matter

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2. Neoliberalism, Teachers, and Teaching Understanding the Assault

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The global Assault on Teachers, Teaching, and Teacher Unions

      • Mary Compton, Lois Weiner

      Pages 3-9

   3. “Remaking the World” Neoliberalism and the Transformation of Education and Teachers’ Labor

      • Susan L. Robertson

      Pages 11-27

3. Neoliberalism’s Global Footprint

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

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   2. Education Reform under Strangulation

      • John Nyambe

      Pages 31-36

   3. Teaching for the factory neoliberalism in mexican education

      • Rodolfo Rincones, Elaine Hampton, Cesar Silva

      Pages 37-41

   4. Neoliberal Education in Denmark

      • Jette Steensen

      Pages 43-46

   5. Higher and Tertiary Education in the West Indies Ensnared by GATS

      • Marguerite Cummins Williams

      Pages 47-51

   6. The Education World Is Not Flat Neoliberalism’s Global Project and Teacher Unions’ Transnational Resistance

      • Larry Kuehn

      Pages 53-72

4. The Need for Unions to Defend Public Education

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

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   2. Teachers and their Unions Why Social Class “Counts”

      • Kathleen A. Murphey

      Pages 75-79

   3. Campaign against the Opening of City Academies in England

      • Ian Murch

      Pages 81-88

   4. An Inner-City Public School Teacher’s Story from China

      • Yihuai Cai

      Pages 89-94

   5. What Teachers Want from their Unions What We Know from Research

      • Nina Bascia

      Pages 95-108

   6. Challenging neoliberalism education unions in Australia

      • Rob Durbridge

      Pages 109-122

5. Teaching, a Profession under Attack

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. Contradictions and Tensions in the Place of Teachers in Educational Reform Reflections upon the Role of Teachers in Recent Educational Reforms in the United States and Namibia

      • Ken Zeichner

      Pages 125-141

   3. Universalization of Elementary Education in India A Dream Deferred Is a Dream Denied

      • Basanti Chakraborty

      Pages 143-147

   4. Educational Restructuring, Democratic Education, and Teachers

      • Álvaro Moreira Hypolito

      Pages 149-160

Public education's character is increasingly under assault as privatization of education is advanced. This collection of essays by noted scholars, teacher activists, and teacher's union leaders from around the world fuses insights with background and analysis to make real the goal of quality education for all the world's children.

• education
• education reform
• privatization
• quality
• relativistic jet
• school
• schooling

"In a time of attacks on the entire public sphere, we need to hear the voices of articulate defenders of more democratic visions. No institution can claim to be democratic when its employees are treated with disrespect. Compton and Weiner have produced a powerful collection that helps restore these voices and helps us understand why they are so deserving of our respect." - Michael W. Apple, John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Author of Educating the "Right" Way

"Acomprehensive and vastly enlightening read for any teacher interested in the wider implications of what it is they do for a living. If you are a teacher and have ever wondered who it is that is pulling your strings, and how and why they are doing it, you ll find this book fascinating and frightening in equal measure." - Phil Beadle, Education Guardian columnist and UK teacher

• National Union of Teachers, UK

  Mary Compton

• New Jersey City University, USA

  Lois Weiner

Mary Compton is Past President of the UK National Union of Teachers, the largest teacher union in Europe, and currently isa practicing classroom teacher of modern languages and English as well as a trade union activist. Lois Weiner is Professor, Elementary and Secondary Education, New Jersey City University and the author of the AERA award-winning book Preparing Teachers for Urban Schools: Lessons from Thirty Years of School Reform, among others.