Title:
Flip the system : changing education from the ground up / edited by Jelmer Evers and René Kneyber.
Author:
Evers, Jelmer, editor.
Kneyber, René, editor.
Publication Information:
Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2016.
Call Number:
LA134 .F55 2016
Abstract:
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 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.
ISBN:
9781138929968
9781138929982
Physical Description:
xiii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Introduction /Jelmer Evers, René Kneyber -- Part I. A global problem: Accountability, privatization and control: 1. Testing towards Utopia: Performativity, Pedagogy and the Teaching Profession / Alderik Visser -- 2. Measuring What Doesn’t Matter: The Nonsense and Sense of Testing and Accountability / Dick van der Wateren, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley -- 3. On Neoliberalism and How It Travels: Interview with Stephen Ball / René Kneyber -- Vignette 1. Changing Education in Action in Cambodia: The Embattled Teach / William Brehm -- 4. The Effects of Accountability: A case study from Indonesia / Art Broekman -- Vignette 2. Changing Education in Action in Georgia ... / Sophia Gorgodze -- 5. On Quality and Professionalism: Interview with Thijs Jansen / René Kneyber -- Part 2. A New Paradigm: Flip the system: 6. Good Education and the Teacher: Reclaiming Educational Professionalism / Gert Biesta -- 7. Non-positional Teacher Leadership: Distributed leadership and self-efficacy / John Bangs and David Frost -- 8. The teachers’ voice: teacher unions at the heart of a new democratic professionalism / Howard Stevenson, Alison Gilliland -- 9. Autonomy and transparency: Two good ideas gone bad / Andy Hargreaves -- 10. Teacher agency: What is it and why does it matter? / Mark Priestley, Gert Biesta and Sarah Robinson -- Part 3. Changing the system: collective autonomy: 11. Whole systems approach: Professional Capital in Singapore / Pak Tee Ng -- Vignette 3. Changing Education in Action in Singapore: The Inquiring Teacher / John Yeo -- 12. Finnish Schools and the Global Education Reform Movement / Pasi Sahlberg -- Vignette 4. Changing Education in Action in Finland: The Collaborating Teacher / Tim Walker -- 13. Teacher-powered Schools: Rising above education’s blame culture/ Kim Farris-Berg and Ed Dirkswager -- 14. From top-down to inside-out: working in a teacher-powered school / Lori Nazareno -- Vignette 5. Changing Education in Action in Mexico: the embracing teacher / Elisa Guerra -- Part 4. A Question of mindset: supporting and activating teachers: 15. Teacher Leadership: A reinvented teaching profession / Barnett Berry, Noah Zeichner, and Rachel Evans -- 16. On Peer Review and Maker Education: Interview with Arjan van der Meij / René Kneyber -- 17. Teacher Learning and Leadership Program: Professional Development for and by teachers / Ann Lieberman, Carol Campbell and Anna Yashkina -- Vignette 6. Changing Education in action in Sweden: The Cared-for Teacher / Eva Hartell -- Vignette 7. Changing Education in Russia: The Informed Teacher / Artiom Soloveychik interviewed by Jelmer Evers -- 18. The Polite Revolution in Research and Education / Tom Bennett -- Vignette 8. Changing Education in Action in Korea: The Travelling Teacher / Korean School teacher interviewed by Jelmer Evers -- 19. Supporting and Empowering Teachers: The Role of School-Community Partnerships / Helen Janc Malone and Reuben Jacobson -- Vignette 9. Changing Education in Action in Australia: The Connected Teacher / Matt Esterman -- Conclusion: Flipping the Education System / Jelmer Evers and René Kneyber.
