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Jeanne M. Powers; Wooyeong Kim – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2023
In 2018, thousands of teachers in West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Arizona walked off the job to protest low salaries and increase school funding. These strikes were significant because they were statewide and took place in "right to work" states. We analyze news media articles published in these states about the teachers' strikes for…
Descriptors: Teachers, Teacher Strikes, News Media, Mass Media Effects
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P. J. White; E. Mayes; B. Sutton; J. P. Ferguson; M. Green – Teaching Education, 2024
Teachers are working in disturbing and challenging times, characterised by coterminous crises, the COVID-19 pandemic and human induced climate change; these are transforming our working conditions and the lives of students and teachers. In this research, we looked to our own pedagogical practices as teacher educators to collaboratively explore…
Descriptors: Crisis Management, COVID-19, Pandemics, Climate
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Catanzaro, Michelle; Collin, Philippa – Educational Review, 2023
Since 2018, school students around the world have gone on strike from school to call on leaders to take decisive action on climate change. Prominent in the resultant rallies are placards created by participants -- from small children to their adult allies. This paper explores how students in the movement enact and activate visual approaches to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Climate, Environmental Education, Activism
Zachary R. Brown – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Highlighting the relationship between the racial slavery in the formation of U.S. colleges and universities and the archive of Black student revolt, this dissertation examines one of the longest and most violent Black student strikes in the history of postsecondary education--the San Francisco State College strike in 1968-1969. Rather than…
Descriptors: Activism, African American Students, Strikes, Postsecondary Education
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Gil Keppens – Environmental Education Research, 2024
During the spring of 2019, approximately 1.6 million people in over 1700 cities worldwide participated in strike action to raise public awareness of government inaction on climate change. The large proportion of youth and young people mobilized through these climate strikes was unprecedented. However, we know very little so far about who these…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Outcomes of Education, Student Participation, Strikes
Learned-Miller, Carole – Phi Delta Kappan, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic, societal racial reckonings, and pressure from parents and the media have put education leaders in a crisis. Carole Learned-Miller of the Leadership Academy in New York spoke with school and education organization leaders who saw their organizations through a variety of challenges, including the pandemic, racial inequities, a…
Descriptors: Leadership, COVID-19, Pandemics, Racism
Husock, Howard – American Enterprise Institute, 2021
The challenge of reopening US public schools in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic has high-lighted the significant role that local teachers unions play in setting policy. The politics of school reopening during the pandemic has brought to the national spotlight the outsized role that teachers unions play in managing big cities. Bureau of Labor…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School District Size, School Districts, Unions
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Rita Z. Nazeer-Ikeda; Sarah R. Asada – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2025
This paper investigates the case of Singapore where there are teachers' unions but industrial actions are rare. It questions why and how has educator organising, steered by Singapore Teachers' Union, transformed? Our findings show that historical, political, and socio-economic dynamics have influenced the transformation of STU. For more than…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Unions, Teacher Associations, Educational History
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Biswas, Tanu; Mattheis, Nikolas – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
In this paper, we offer a childist reading of school strikes for climate in an overheated world. We argue that school strikes can be understood as offering a dynamic counterweight to formal education, by providing opportunities for children to self-educate, and for others, especially adults, to learn from them. We suggest that taking school…
Descriptors: Climate, Strikes, Independent Study, Political Attitudes
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Padraic Casserly; Ademola Dare; Joy Onuh; Williams Baah; Ashley Taylor – Biomedical Engineering Education, 2024
Amidst the dual challenges of an eight-month university closure from nationwide public university strikes in Nigeria and the lingering impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, we needed to innovate the delivery of BME graduate curriculum to ensure graduate students continued to progress in their studies. To ensure BME graduate students were engaging in…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Engineering Education, Video Technology, Lecture Method
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Silman, Fatos; Güneyli, Ahmet; Vaiz, Osman; Karasel-Ayda, Nedime – SAGE Open, 2021
This study aims to examine the views of primary school teachers from North and South Cyprus on Teachers' Unions. Qualitative research and a comparative case study method were used for the study. Thirty-seven primary school teachers from North and South Cyprus participated in this study. The data were obtained through interviews and analyzed by the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Unions
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Bryner, Lindsay – Education and Society, 2021
A major teacher shortage exists in the United States. As teachers leave the classroom in droves, administrators are forced to hire unlicensed educators in order to fill vacant positions. Teachers have decided to change professions due to a lack of competitive salaries, fear of personal safety, and a lack of support from education stakeholders.…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Labor Turnover, Teaching Conditions, School Safety
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Lowan-Trudeau, Gregory; Fowler, Teresa Anne – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2022
The Youth Strike for Climate raised important global attention to interconnected climate, energy and environmental issues -- it also compelled us to consider what we will do to address these pressing challenges. Developed through consideration of such dynamics, we propose critical energy literacy as an emerging theory that denotes understanding of…
Descriptors: Strikes, Climate, Energy Conservation, Conservation (Environment)
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Nirali Jani – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
This article traces the state takeover and neoliberal reconstruction of a mid-size urban school district in the California Bay Area. Aligning with research on social networks in school reform, it identifies three organizational nodes of power operating within the takeover and post-takeover landscape: venture-philanthropic capital, the Teach for…
Descriptors: School Districts, Neoliberalism, States Powers, Educational Change
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Karvelis, Noah – Berkeley Review of Education, 2022
In the last four years, teacher-activists in the United States have engaged in an unprecedented wave of protests and strikes. The developing body of literature seeking to understand this flurry of activity has taken various analytical approaches; for example, distilling movements into their key tactics in the hopes of lending important tools to…
Descriptors: Activism, Governance, Educational Theories, Teachers
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