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Yarker, Patrick – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2013
Policy pursued by Education Secretary Michael Gove promises to bring about the first national teachers' strike for a generation. This article reviews the nature and effect of Gove's intensification of academisation, and outlines ways in which edu-business is involved.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Strikes, Teacher Rights, Unions
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McGill Journal of Education, 2013
In the wake of the Québec student movement, graduate students of the 2012-2013 executive team for the Teaching Assistants' Unit of the Association of Graduate Students Employed at McGill (AGSEM) reflect on their individual backgrounds and motivations for pursuing union work. With various opportunities for employment on and off campus, what compels…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Teaching Assistants, Unions
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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
Diamond, Norm – American Educator, 2012
Today's movement in support of the 99 percent is a reminder that throughout U.S. history, a major engine of change has been grass-roots organizing and solidarity. Major history textbooks, however, downplay the role of ordinary people in shaping events--especially those who formed labor unions and used the strike to assert their rights. One of the…
Descriptors: Strikes, United States History, Textbooks, Unions
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Ansara, Soraia – Journal of Social Science Education, 2015
This article refers to a research on the political memory of the military dictatorship in Brazil, held in three Brazilian cities (Belo Horizonte, Curitiba and São Paulo) in which we analyzed the social and psychopolitical impacts caused by the dictatorship as well as the redemocratization process in building the political memory of community and…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Foreign Countries, Social Influences, Political Issues
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Deacon, H. J. – South African Journal of Education, 2014
While the South African Constitution enshrines both children's right to a basic education and teachers' right to strike, conflict between these two often occurs when the way in which teachers' unions conduct strike actions detracts from learners' education. This article identifies the parties affected by industrial action in the school context,…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Access to Education
Santoro, Doris A., Ed.; Cain, Lizabeth, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2018
"Principled Resistance: How Teachers Resolve Ethical Dilemmas" brings together senior scholars and activist teachers to explore the concept of resistance as a necessary response to mandates that conflict with their understanding of quality teaching. The book provides vivid examples of the pedagogical, professional, and democratic…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Principles, Ethics, Teacher Attitudes
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Stevenson, Howard – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2013
Teachers in England and Wales are involved in the largest campaign of industrial action since the mid-1980s. At the heart of their grievances are government plans to abolish a national framework for teachers' pay and the removal of important safeguards relating to working conditions. Wider questions of workload and pensions are also involved. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Salaries, Teaching Conditions, Retirement Benefits
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Jacoby, Daniel F.; Nitta, Keith – Educational Policy, 2012
Striking for nine days in 2008, teachers in Bellevue carved a distinctive path through the contradictory movements for professional reform unionism and national accountability. In addition to compensation, Bellevue's teachers struck over the top-down prescriptive management epitomized by the Gates Foundation supported "Curriculum Web."…
Descriptors: Teacher Strikes, Unions, Educational Change, Administrative Change
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Scribner, Campbell F. – American Journal of Education, 2015
This article examines the legal and political significance of teacher unionization in rural and suburban school districts between 1960 and 1975. While most historians focus on the growth of unions in urban areas, strikes in outlying districts played a determinative role in the development of public sector labor law, particularly in the arbitration…
Descriptors: Educational History, United States History, Unions, Rural Schools
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Rossouw, J. P. – South African Journal of Education, 2012
Developments in South African labour legislation since the inception of the new democracy indicate serious attempts by the legislators to protect the interests of employees. The Bill of Rights has, concurrently, enshrined a variety of fundamental rights that, in principle, offer protection in the workplace. Despite this established, protective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Strikes, Unions, Teacher Rights
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Fiksenbaum, Lisa M.; Wickens, Christine M.; Greenglass, Esther R.; Wiesenthal, David L. – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2012
Rising rates of unionization in university settings suggest that campus labour disputes are likely to become an increasingly relevant issue. The research question in the current analysis asked which factors contributed to students' perception of fair treatment following a university labour disruption. A longitudinal survey of students' experiences…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Student Attitudes, Strikes, Foreign Countries
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Sharp, William L. – Educational Research Quarterly, 2012
School superintendents have many roles, and being responsible for collective bargaining is one of those roles in states where collective bargaining is mandatory. This role has changed over the years, and it varies from school district to school district. As teacher associations and unions have increased in number and strength, superintendents and…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Collective Bargaining, Administrator Attitudes, Strikes
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Shaffer, Robert – History Teacher, 2011
The chapters on the 1960s and early 1970s in recent editions of secondary-level United States history textbooks have done an impressive job in getting beyond the traditional political narratives of presidential administrations to include the movements of protest and reform based on citizen activism. But despite their laudable efforts to broaden…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Secondary School Curriculum, Textbooks, United States History
Cavanagh, Sean – Education Week, 2011
Teachers' unions find themselves on the defensive in states across the country, as governors and lawmakers press forward with proposals to target job protections and benefits that elected officials contend the public can no longer afford academically or financially. Many of those efforts are being driven by newly elected Republicans, who have…
Descriptors: Unions, State Officials, Legislators, Politics of Education
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