Full Description
All phases of education from pre-school to post-compulsory, in virtually all parts of the world, have experienced unprecedented reform and restructuring in recent years. Restructuring has largely been driven by a global agenda that has promoted the development of human capital as the key to economic competitiveness in the global market.
This book adopts an inter-disciplinary approach drawing not only on education research but also from the fields of industrial sociology, management studies and labour process theory to locate the reform agenda within a wider picture relating to teachers, their professional identities and their experience of work. In doing so the book draws on critical perspectives that seek to challenge orthodox policy discourses relating to remodelling.
Illustrating of how education policy is shaped by discourses within the wider socio-political environment and how unionization and inter-organizational bargaining between unions exerts a decisive, but often ignored, influence on policy development at both a State and institutional level, this book is a must read for anyone researching or studying employment relations.
Contents
Acknowledgements 1. Teachers' Work and Teacher Unions: The Global Context 2. Transforming the School Workforce in England: The Road to Remodelling 3. Research Methods: Processes, Issues and Implications 4. Setting the Agenda: The Emergence and Significance of 'Social Partnership' at the National Level 5. Industrial Relations in Transition: The Changing Role of Local Authorities 6. Transforming the Primary School Workforce 7. Workforce Remodelling in Secondary Schools: Towards Extended, Accountable Management 8. Workforce Remodelling: Transforming Teaching? 9. Industrial Relations and Trade Union Renewal, Rapprochement or Resistance. Appendix. References. Index
