Teachers' Work in a Globalizing Economy

ISBN-13: 9780750709620 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 240 str.

John Smyth;Dow Alistair

Opis

This study locates what is happening to teachers work in the global economy. Within the dramatically changed circumstances of globalization, schools are being required to act as if they were private businesses driven by the quest for efficiency and operating in a supposed atmosphere of marketization and competition with each other for resources, students, reputation, and public support for their continued existence. Meanwhile, this ideology of schools as cost centres has become so pervasive that there has been little public debate on its desirability or its alternatives. This book seeks to addresses this imbalance and provides a major renovation of labour process theory in an educational context. Two 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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Dow, Alistair; Hattam, Robert; Reid, Alan; Shacklock, Geoffrey; Smyth, John