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Mary Compton is Past President of the UK National Union of Teachers, the largest teacher union in Europe. She is a practicing classroom teacher of modern languages and English as well as a trade union activist. She is a prolific speaker and writer on issues affecting teachers, in particular on the need to fight back against the neo-liberal agenda for education, which is the subject of this volume.
Lois Weiner is an internationally known researcher on urban teacher education who teaches education at New Jersey City University. Her first book, Preparing Teachers for Urban Schools, won an award for distinguished scholarship from the American Educational Research Association. Her book of advice, Urban Teaching: The Essentials, is used in programs of teacher education throughout the US. Weiner is the author of dozens of articles on educational topics, in scholarly publications and magazines and newspapers.
| List of Vignettes | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xv |
| Neoliberalism, Teachers, and Teaching: Understanding the Assault | |
| The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers, and Teacher Unions | p. 3 |
| "Remaking the World": Neoliberalism and the Transformation of Education and Teachers' Labor | p. 11 |
| Neoliberalism's Global Footprint | |
| Education Reform under Strangulation | p. 31 |
| Teaching for the Factory: Neoliberalism in Mexican Education | p. 37 |
| Neoliberal Education in Denmark | p. 43 |
| Higher and Tertiary Education in the West Indies: Ensnared by GATS | p. 47 |
| The Education World Is Not Flat: Neoliberalism's Global Project and Teacher Unions' Transnational Resistance | p. 53 |
| The Need for Unions to Defend Public Education | |
| Teachers and their Unions: Why Social Class "Counts" | p. 75 |
| Campaign against the Opening of City Academies in England | p. 81 |
| An Inner-City Public School Teacher's Story from China | p. 89 |
| What Teachers Want from their Unions: What We Know from Research | p. 95 |
| Challenging Neoliberalism: Education Unions in Australia | p. 109 |
| Teaching, a Profession under Attack | |
| Contradictions and Tensions in the Place of Teachers in Educational Reform: Reflections upon the Role of Teachers in Recent Educational Reforms in the United States and Namibia | p. 125 |
| Universalization of Elementary Education in India: A Dream Deferred Is a Dream Denied | p. 143 |
| Educational Restructuring, Democratic Education, and Teachers | p. 149 |
| Neoliberalism, Inequality, and Teacher Unions | |
| Sodexho in the Chicago Public Schools | p. 163 |
| Homophobia in St. Lucian Schools: A Perspective from a Select Group of Teachers | p. 169 |
| Work on Aboriginal Education in a Social Justice Union: Reflections from the Inside | p. 173 |
| South African Teachers and Social Movements: Old and New | p. 177 |
| Schooling and Class in Germany: An Interview with Eberhardt Brand and Susanne Gondermann | p. 193 |
| Education or Mind Infection? | p. 199 |
| Going on the Offensive | |
| Interview with Thulas Nxesi, President of Education International | p. 211 |
| The Context of Teachers' Democratic Movements in Mexico | p. 217 |
| In Mexico, to Defend Education as a Social Right, We Must Fight for Union Democracy | p. 221 |
| A History of the Search for Teacher Unity in South Africa | p. 227 |
| British Teacher Unions and the Blair Government: Anatomy of an Abusive Relationship | p. 237 |
| Building the International Movement We Need: Why a Consistent Defense of Democracy and Equality Is Essential | p. 251 |
| About the Authors | p. 269 |
| Index | p. 273 |
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