Industrial Relations in Education - Transforming the School Workforce

Informationen zum Autor Bob Carter, Howard Stevenson Klappentext All phases of education from pre-school to post-compulsory, in virtually all parts of the world, have experienced unprecedented reform and restructuring in recent years. Restructuring has largely been driven by a global agenda that has promoted the development of human capital as the key to economic competitiveness in the global market.This book adopts an inter-disciplinary approach drawing not only on education research but also from the fields of industrial sociology, management studies and labour process theory to locate the reform agenda within a wider picture relating to teachers, their professional identities and their experience of work. In doing so the book draws on critical perspectives that seek to challenge orthodox policy discourses relating to remodelling. Illustrating of how education policy is shaped by discourses within the wider socio-political environment and how unionization and inter-organizational bargaining between unions exerts a decisive, but often ignored, influence on policy development at both a State and institutional level, this book is a must read for anyone researching or studying employment relations. Zusammenfassung Drawing from the fields of industrial sociology, management studies and labour process theory, this title attempts to understand the reform agenda in relation to teachers, their professional identities and their experience of work by drawing on critical perspectives that seek to challenge orthodox policy discourses relating to remodelling. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements 1. Teachers’ Work and Teacher Unions: The Global Context 2. Transforming the School Workforce in England: The Road to Remodelling 3. Research Methods: Processes, Issues and Implications 4. Setting the Agenda: The Emergence and Significance of 'Social Partnership' at the National Level 5. Industrial Relations in Transition: The Changing Role of Local Authorities 6. Transforming the Primary School Workforce 7. Workforce Remodelling in Secondary Schools: Towards Extended, Accountable Management 8. Workforce Remodelling: Transforming Teaching? 9. Industrial Relations and Trade Union Renewal, Rapprochement or Resistance. Appendix. References. Index ...

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• Authors: Bob Carter, Bob (University of Leicester Carter, Bob Stevenson Carter, Carter Bob, CARTER BOB STEVENSON HOWARD, Rowena Passy, Passy Rowena, Howard Stevenson, Stevenson Howard
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.12.2009
• EAN: 9780415414548
• ISBN: 978-0-415-41454-8
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Business & Economics / General, Economics, Society & culture: general, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Structural Adjustment, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, Personnel & human resources management, Moral and social purpose of education, Sociology: work & labour, Society and culture: general, Personnel and human resources management, Sociology: work and labour, Moral & social purpose of education