1st Edition
Teachers' Work in a Globalizing Economy
238 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
Extended critical case studies provide a tangible working expression of the labour process of teaching, showing how teachers are simultaneously experiencing significant changes to their work, as well as responding in ways that actively shape these processes. For teachers and researchers, this book shows what processes are at work in the global economy which impact on, and sometimes control, the... Read more
Foreword, List of tables and figures 1.Deindustrialisation, global capital and the crisis in teachers' work 2.Towards a labour process theory of teachers' work 3.The critical case study method 4.Teachers' work in a Post-Fordist Era: The case of the teacher-managers of Gallipoli High School 5.Teachers' work-stories account of professionalism and intensification: The case of Appleton College 6.Towards a revitalisation of a critical theory of teachers' work 7.Struggling with 'global effects': teachers as pedagogical-political workers, References
Biography
Dow, Alistair; Hattam, Robert; Reid, Alan; Shacklock, Geoffrey; Smyth, John
