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The global assault on teaching, teachers, and their unions = stories for resistance /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The global assault on teaching, teachers, and their unions/ Mary Compton and Lois Weiner, editors.
Reminder of title:	stories for resistance /
other author:	Compton, Mary F.
Published:	New York, N.Y. :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2008.,
Description:	xiii, 281 p. ;22 cm.
[NT 15003449]:	The global assault on teaching, teachers, and teacher unions / Mary Compton and Lois Weiner -- "Remaking the world": neo-liberalism and thetransformation of education and teachers' labor / Susan Robertson -- Education reform under strangulation/ John Nyambe (Namibia) -- Teachingfor the factory: neo-liberalism in Mexican education / Rodolfo Rincones, Elaine Hampton, and Cesar Silva -- Neo-liberal education in Denmark/ Jetta Steensen -- Higher and tertiary education in the West Indies: ensnared by GATS / Margueritte Williams -- The education world is not flat: neo-liberalism's global project and teacher unions' transnational resistance/ Larry Kuehn -- Teachers and their unions: why social class"counts" / Kathleen A. Murphey -- Campaign against the opening of cityacademies in England / Ian Murch -- An inner-city public school teacher's story from China/ Yihuai Cai -- What teachers want from their unions: what we know from research / Nina Bascia -- Challenging neo-liberalism:education unions in Australia/ Rob Durbridge -- Contradictions and tensions in the place of teachers in educational reform: reflections upon the role of teachers in recent educational reforms in theUS andNamibia/ Ken Zeichner -- Universalization of elementary education in India: a dream deferredis a dream denied / Basanti Chakraoborty -- Educational restructuring, democratic education, and teachers/ Alvaro Moreira Hypolito -- Sodexho in the Chicago public schools / Kyle Westbrook-- Homophobia in St. Lucian schools: a perspective from a select groupof teachers/ Urban Dolor -- Work on aboriginal education in a social justice union: reflections from the inside / Chris Stewart -- South African teachers and social movements: old and new/ Shermain Mannah and Jon Lewis -- Schooling and class in Germany: an interview with EberhardtBrand and Susanne Gondermann / Mary Compton -- Education or mind infection?/ Nurit Peled-Elhanan -- Interview with Thulas Nxesi, president of the Education International / Mary Compton -- The context of teachers' democratic movements in Mexico/ Rodolfo Rincones -- In Mexico, to defend education as a social right, we must fight for union democracy / Maria de la Luz Arriaga Lemus -- A history of the search for teacher unity in South Africa/ Harold Samuel -- British teacher unions and the Blair government: anatomy of an abusive relationship / Mary Compton -- Building the international movement we need: why a consistent defense of democracy and equality is essential / Lois Weiner.
Subject:	Education and globalization - Cross-cultural studies. -
Online resource:	http://link.springer.com/10.1057/9780230611702access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	0230611702

The global assault on teaching, teachers, and their unions = stories for resistance /
The global assault on teaching, teachers, and their unionsstories for resistance /[electronic resource] :Mary Compton and Lois Weiner, editors. - 1st ed. - New York, N.Y. :Palgrave Macmillan,2008. - xiii, 281 p. ;22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The global assault on teaching, teachers, and teacher unions / Mary Compton and Lois Weiner -- "Remaking the world": neo-liberalism and thetransformation of education and teachers' labor / Susan Robertson -- Education reform under strangulation/ John Nyambe (Namibia) -- Teachingfor the factory: neo-liberalism in Mexican education / Rodolfo Rincones, Elaine Hampton, and Cesar Silva -- Neo-liberal education in Denmark/ Jetta Steensen -- Higher and tertiary education in the West Indies: ensnared by GATS / Margueritte Williams -- The education world is not flat: neo-liberalism's global project and teacher unions' transnational resistance/ Larry Kuehn -- Teachers and their unions: why social class"counts" / Kathleen A. Murphey -- Campaign against the opening of cityacademies in England / Ian Murch -- An inner-city public school teacher's story from China/ Yihuai Cai -- What teachers want from their unions: what we know from research / Nina Bascia -- Challenging neo-liberalism:education unions in Australia/ Rob Durbridge -- Contradictions and tensions in the place of teachers in educational reform: reflections upon the role of teachers in recent educational reforms in theUS andNamibia/ Ken Zeichner -- Universalization of elementary education in India: a dream deferredis a dream denied / Basanti Chakraoborty -- Educational restructuring, democratic education, and teachers/ Alvaro Moreira Hypolito -- Sodexho in the Chicago public schools / Kyle Westbrook-- Homophobia in St. Lucian schools: a perspective from a select groupof teachers/ Urban Dolor -- Work on aboriginal education in a social justice union: reflections from the inside / Chris Stewart -- South African teachers and social movements: old and new/ Shermain Mannah and Jon Lewis -- Schooling and class in Germany: an interview with EberhardtBrand and Susanne Gondermann / Mary Compton -- Education or mind infection?/ Nurit Peled-Elhanan -- Interview with Thulas Nxesi, president of the Education International / Mary Compton -- The context of teachers' democratic movements in Mexico/ Rodolfo Rincones -- In Mexico, to defend education as a social right, we must fight for union democracy / Maria de la Luz Arriaga Lemus -- A history of the search for teacher unity in South Africa/ Harold Samuel -- British teacher unions and the Blair government: anatomy of an abusive relationship / Mary Compton -- Building the international movement we need: why a consistent defense of democracy and equality is essential / Lois Weiner.

Increasingly public education's character is under assault. This collection of essays by noted scholars, teacher activists, and teacher union leaders from around the world fuses personal stories, research, and political analysis, explaining why such profound and damaging changes are being made to schools and teaching, and how teachers, their unions, and supporters of public education can make real the goal of quality education for all the world's children.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 0230611702Subjects--Topical Terms:

599846
Education and globalization
--Cross-cultural studies.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: LB2806.36 / .G58 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 331.88/113711

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