The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers, and Their Unions : Stories for Resistance

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. The Global Assault On Teaching, Teachers, And Teacher Unions / Mary Compton And Lois Weiner -- Remaking The World: Neoliberalism And The Transformation Of Education And Teachers' Labor / Susan Robertson -- Education Reform Under Strangulation / John Nyambe -- Teaching For The Factory: Neoliberalism In Mexican Education / Rodolfo Rincones, Elaine Hampton, And Cesar Silva -- Neoliberal Education In Denmark / Jetta Steensen -- Higher And Tertiary Education In The West Indies: Ensnared By Gats / Margueritte Cummins Williams -- The Education World Is Not Flat: Neoliberalism'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 City Academies 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 Neoliberalism: 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 The Us And Namibia / Ken Zeichner -- Universalization Of Elementary Education In India: A Dream Deferred Is 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 Group Of 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 Eberhardt Brand 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. Mary Compton And Lois Weiner, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Contents......Page 8 List of Vignettes......Page 12 Acknowledgments......Page 16 Part I: Neoliberalism, Teachers, and Teaching: Understanding the Assault......Page 18 1 The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers, and Teacher Unions......Page 20 2 “Remaking the World”: Neoliberalism and the Transformation of Education and Teachers’ Labor......Page 28 Part II: Neoliberalism’s Global Footprint......Page 46 3 Education Reform under Strangulation......Page 48 4 Teaching for the Factory: Neoliberalism in Mexican Education......Page 54 5 Neoliberal Education in Denmark......Page 60 6 Higher and Tertiary Education in the West Indies: Ensnared by GATS......Page 64 7 The Education World Is Not Flat: Neoliberalism’s Global Project and Teacher Unions’ Transnational Resistance......Page 70 Part III: The Need for Unions to Defend Public Education......Page 90 8 Teachers and their Unions: Why Social Class “Counts”......Page 92 9 Campaign against the Opening of City Academies in England......Page 98 10 An Inner-City Public School Teacher’s Story from China......Page 106 11 What Teachers Want from their Unions: What We Know from Research......Page 112 12 Challenging Neoliberalism: Education Unions in Australia......Page 126 Part IV: Teaching, a Profession under Attack......Page 140 13 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......Page 142 14 Universalization of Elementary Education in India: A Dream Deferred Is a Dream Denied......Page 160 15 Educational Restructuring, Democratic Education, and Teachers......Page 166 Part V: Neoliberalism, Inequality, and Teacher Unions......Page 178 16 Sodexho in the Chicago Public Schools......Page 180 17 Homophobia in St. Lucian Schools: A Perspective from a Select Group of Teachers......Page 186 18 Work on Aboriginal Education in a Social Justice Union: Reflections from the Inside......Page 190 19 South African Teachers and Social Movements: Old and New......Page 194 20 Schooling and Class in Germany: An Interview with Eberhardt Brand and Susanne Gondermann......Page 210 21 Education or Mind Infection?......Page 216 Part VI: Going on the Offensive......Page 226 22 Interview with Thulas Nxesi, President of Education International......Page 228 23 The Context of Teachers’ Democratic Movements in Mexico......Page 234 24 In Mexico, to Defend Education as a Social Right, We Must Fight for Union Democracy......Page 238 25 A History of the Search for Teacher Unity in South Africa......Page 244 26 British Teacher Unions and the Blair Government: Anatomy of an Abusive Relationship......Page 254 27 Building the International Movement We Need: Why a Consistent Defense of Democracy and Equality Is Essential......Page 268 About the Authors......Page 286 C......Page 290 G......Page 292 L......Page 293 O......Page 294 S......Page 295 T......Page 296 W......Page 297 Z......Page 298 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. 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