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Wagner, Josefine – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2020
In this paper, the 2019 Polish Teachers Strike (PTS), joined by 75 percent of all public schools and kindergartens for over three weeks, gives rise to an investigation in teacher professionalism that is grounded in local activism. Reading the Polish Teacher Strike (PTS) as a moment of social upheaval (Buchowski, 2017), I claim that the strike…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public School Teachers, Activism, Teacher Strikes
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Sherfinski, Melissa; Hayes, Sharon; Zhang, Jing; Jalalifard, Mariam – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2019
We explore how two "happenings" representing different political, social, historical and economic influences converge to shape the narratives of preservice teachers and teacher educators in West Virginia. These happenings are the 2017-2018 edTPA roll out and the teacher strike of February 2018. We use the framework of sensemaking to…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Preservice Teachers, Mentors, Performance Based Assessment
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Lee, Michael – Educational Practice and Theory, 2016
The professionalization of the teaching profession has been among one of the most crucial education policies for improving the quality of school education in Hong Kong. This paper reviews the process of professionalizing school teachers in Hong Kong from the early 1970s when it marked the beginning of the significant growth of the size of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professionalism, Educational History, Educational Trends