Full Description
Education is threatened on a global scale by forces of neoliberalism, through high stakes accountability, privatization and a destructive language of learning. In all respects, a GERM (Global Education Reform Movement) has erupted from international benchmark rankings such as PISA, TIMMS and PIRL, causing inequity, narrowing of the curriculum and teacher deprofessionalization on a truly global scale.
In this book, teachers from around the world and other educational experts such as Andy Hargreaves, Ann Lieberman, Stephen Ball, Gert Biesta, Tom Bennett and many more, make the case to move away from this uneducational economic approach, to instead embrace a more humane, more democratic approach to education. This approach is called 'flipping the system', a move that places teachers exactly where they need to be - at the steering wheel of educational systems worldwide.
This book will appeal to teachers and other education professionals around the world.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Part 1: A global problem: Accountability, privatization and control
Chapter 1: Testing towards Utopia: Performativity, Pedagogy and the Teaching Profession
Chapter 2: Measuring what doesn't matter: The Nonsense and sense of testing
Chapter 3: Stephen Ball - On Neoliberalism and How it travels
Changing Education in Action in Cambodia: The Embattled Teach
Chapter 4: The Effects of Accountability: A case study from Indonesia
Chapter 5: Thijs Jansen - On Quality and Professionality
Changing Education in Action in Georgia: ....
Part 2: A New Paradigm: Flip the system
Chapter 6: Good Education and the Teacher: Reclaiming Educational Professionalism
Chapter 7: Non-positional Teacher Leadership: Distributed leadership and self-efficacy
Chapter 8: The teachers' voice: teacher unions at the heart of a new democratic professionalism
Chapter 9: Automony and Transparency: Two ideas gone bad
Chapter 10: Teacher agency: What it is and why it matters
Part 3: A Change to the system: Collective Autonomy
Chapter 11: Whole systems approach: Professional Capital in Singapore
Changing Education in Action in Finland: The Collaborating Teacher
Chapter 12: Teacher-powered Schools: Rising above education's blame culture
Changing Education in Action in Singapore: The Inquiring Teacher
Chapter 13: From top-down to inside-out: working in a teacher-led school
Changing Education in Action in Mexico: The Embracing Teacher
Part 4: A Question of Mindset: Supporting and activating teachers
Chapter 14: Teacher Leadership: A reinvented teaching profession
Changing Education in Spain: The Inspiring Teacher
Chapter 15: Arjan van der Meij - On Peer review and maker education
Chapter 16: Teacher Learning and Leadership Program: Professional Development for and by teachers
Chapter 17: The Polite Revolution in Research and Education
Changing Education in Action in Korea: The Travelling Teacher
Chapter 18: Supporting and Empowering Teachers: The Role of School-Community Partnerships
Changing Education in Action in Australia: The Connected Teacher
Conclusion: Flipping the Education System
