Handbook on Teachers’ Work : International Perspectives on Research and Practice (Hardcover)

1. Introduction to the Handbook? Section 1: Policy, Governmentality, and Teachers’ Work? 2. Beyond Policy Promises: Performance-based Accountability in Education and its Side-Effects on Teachers’ Work Across the Globe? 3. Racial Capitalism and the Politics of Class Size and Delivery Mode: A Survey of Secondary Teachers in Ontario, Canada? 4. Teachers’ Work and School Material Culture: How Teachers Configure the Role of Collective Didactic Devices in Argentina? 5. Teacher Unions and Policy-Making in South Africa: Exclusion, Contestation and Collaboration? 6. The Governance of Teaching During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Ontario, Canada? 7. Policy Agency and Advocacy as Teachers’ Work in the USA? Section 2: Situating Teachers’ Work in Broader Contexts? 8. Pursuing the School as a Workplace: The Policies and Practices that Support and Sustain Teachers Over Time: A view from the USA? 9. Mentor Teachers’ Perspectives on Mentoring Preservice Teachers in Chile? 10. Striking a Balance: Examining the Interplay Between Teacher Empowerment and Teacher Accountability in U.S. Schools? 11. Teachers’ Work: Lessons Learned on Three Continents? 12. The Globalization of the Teacher Workforce? Section 3: Teachers’ Diverse Identities? 13. Conceptualizing Teachers’ Care Work in the U.S.A.: Lessons from Black Women and Trans- and Non-binary Teachers? 14. Uncomfortable Hierarchies and Structural Constraints: Teachers as Middle Managers of Paraeducators in the USA? 15. Revisiting Gender and Class in Urban China: Undervalued Work of Migrant Teachers and Their Resistance? 16. The Hazards of "Positive Organizational Environment": Racialized Emotional Labor and Work in Teachers' Lives in Canada? Section 4: The Collective Work of Teachers? 17. Teachers and Their Colleagues in the United States: 50 Years Beyond "Schoolteacher"? 18. Relationships of Knowledge and Practice: Teacher Learning in Communities? 19. Social Justice-Oriented Educators’ Collectivist Organizations in Canada and the U.S.: A Typology? 20. Teachers' Professional Authority and Bureaucratic Control : The Case of Professional Learning Communities in the United States? Section 5: Teaching and Contestation? 21. Teacher Activism as Teachers' Work: Perspectives on Teachers' Work in Social Movements and Unions Across the Americas? 22. Making Black Lives Matter at School: Educators Working in Solidarity for Black Lives in the U.S.A.? 23. Navigating Terror and Trauma In A Conservative-Controlled State:
A 2024 Dispatch from Anti-Oppressive Public School Educators in Iowa, U.S.A.? 24. Toward Equity-Centered Teaching in a Centralized, Meritocratic System: A Tale From Singapore? Section 6: Final Words 25. Teachers’ Worth? 26. Final Words