Beckett / Carr Teachers and Teacher Unions in a Globalised World

History, theory and policy in Ireland
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-97042-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 242 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Education

This book asks a series of pressing questions of teacher educators, teachers and teacher unions worldwide in this era of global capitalism. As governments around the world support austerity politics in the face of financial melt-downs, social inequalities, terrorist threats, climate catastrophe, wars and mass migrations, Teachers and Teacher Unions in a Globalised World asks: are practitioners in teaching and teacher education merely to succumb to pressures to dismantle their nation-state systems of education?

England is a prime example of a country where successive neoliberal governments have incrementally opened up public education to the interests of quasi-marketisation, privatisation and corporatisation. The impending reforms to reconfigure Ireland’s national system of schooling seem by every indication to reflect ever closer ties with the situation in England. In light of this, Carr and Beckett present a clearly argued case in Ireland for teachers and teacher educators organising in order to realise their moral and social responsibilities of free and fair schooling for all when it is most needed. This is simultaneous to insisting on professional and public policy debates, both global and regional, as well as national and local, about a free publicly-funded school system.

In a scenario where teachers are feeling overwhelmed with workload and frustrated by the visible turning of events away from the historical record, Car and Beckett emphasise how important it is that practitioner research is used to inform decisions about a strategic and democratic way forward for education, not just in Ireland, but around the globe. As a result, the book will be of great interest to academics and researchers in the field of education, as well as teacher educators, practitioners and policymakers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beckett, Lori

Carr, John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungswesen: Organisation und Verwaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: Biographical, historical and transnational perspectives

Gary McCulloch

Introduction

Part One: The history of teachers’ organising

1. Ireland as a prima facie case?

2. The long view back to Vere Foster

Part two: Theory of teachers’ organising

3. The INTO & activist teachers

4. Ireland in the global neoliberal policy regime

Part three: Practical-politics of teachers’ organising

5. Teachers ‘doing policy’ in Ireland

6. Teachers’ case for the defence

Conclusion: The prima facie case: a rebuttal?

Afterword

Bob Lingard

Über Autor(innen)

John Carr, MA (Ed) is former General Secretary of the Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO). John was elected by the members of the Organisation in 2000 and retired in 2010. John is currently Chair of the Preparing for Life Programme, a project to help families with the development of their preschool children and supporting them towards school readiness; Chair of Quality Development out of School Services (QDOSS); Chair of the National Strategy Group on Drugs; and Chair of Comhar Linn the INTO Teachers’ Credit Union.

Lori Beckett is the Winifred Mercier Professor of Teacher Education at Leeds Beckett University, where she has worked for more than ten years. Lori was recruited from Sydney to set up school-university partnerships in networks of urban schools and build/support practitioner research activity around poverty and social inequalities. Lori works closely with John Carr and colleagues in the Vere Foster Trust, where together they co-organised the public lecture series and continue to liaise on work in disadvantaged schools.