1st Edition

World Yearbook of Education 2013 Educators, Professionalism and Politics: Global Transitions, National Spaces and Professional Projects

Edited By Terri Seddon, John Levin Copyright 2013
336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

Educators, professionalism and politics offers ways of understanding how and with what consequences national systems of education and the work of education professionals are being reregulated in the context of contemporary global transitions. Globalization does not just create transnational organizations, relations and practices; it also transforms nation-states by creating more complex... Read more

1. Global transitions and Educational Professionalism: Trajectories of occupational boundary work in the politics of professionalization  2. When the Global Arises from Inside the National  3. Teacher Professionalisation and the Globalisation of Schooling  4. The Shifting Boundaries of Teacher Professionalism: Education privatization(s) in the post-socialist education space  5. Teachers’ Work, Denationalisation, and Transformations in the Field of Symbolic Control: A comparative account  6. The OECD and the Global Re-regulation of Teachers’ Work: Knowledge based regulation tools and teachers in Finland and England  7. Local Tradition, International Engagement: Challenges for the asian professoriate  8. What is College Lecturer's Work? Possibilities for Professionalzing College Lecturers in South Africa  9. State Interventions for University Restructuring: The construction of academic practice and identity in public state universities in Mexico  10. Learner-Centred Education and Teacher Professionalism at the Local-Global Nexus  11. The Doubts and Uncertainties of French Educators in the face of Travelling Policies  12. Globalization and Educational Reform: What choices for teachers  13. Living the Tensions: Moral dilemmas in English Language Teaching  14. Globalization and Transnational Academic Mobility: A case study of chinese academic returnees  15. The Politics of Privatisation: Insights from the central asian university  16. The Once and Future Academic  17. Professional Capital and the Future of Teaching

Biography

Terri Seddon is Professor of Education at Monash University, Australia.

John S. Levin is Bank of America Professor of Education Leadership and Director, California Community College Collaborative, University of California, USA.