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

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
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