Comparative Politics of Education (eBook, PDF)

Teachers Unions and Education Systems around the World
Redaktion: Moe, Terry M.

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Produktbeschreibung

Public education is critically important to the human capital, social well-being, and economic prosperity of nations. It is also an intensely political realm of public policy that is heavily shaped by power and special interests. Yet political scientists rarely study education, and education researchers rarely study politics. This volume attempts to change that by promoting the development of a coherent, thriving field on the comparative politics of education. As an opening wedge, the authors carry out an 11-nation comparative study of the political role of teachers unions, showing that as education systems everywhere became institutionalized, teachers unions pursued their interests by becoming well-organized, politically active, highly influential - and during the modern era, the main opponents of neoliberal reform. Across diverse nations, the commonalities are striking. The challenge going forward is to expand on this study's scope, theory, and evidence to bring education into the heart of comparative politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316731888
• Artikelnr.: 47394071

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; 2. Teachers unions in the United States: the politics of
blocking Terry Moe; 3. Teachers unions in England: the end is nigh? Susanne
Wiborg; 4. Teachers unions in France: making fundamental reform an
impossible quest? Michael Dobbins; 5. Teachers unions in Germany:
fragmented competitors Rita Nikolai, Kendra Briken and Dennis Niemann; 6.
Teachers unions in the Nordic countries: solidarity and the politics of
self interest Susanne Wiborg; 7. Teachers unions in Japan: the frustration
of permanent opposition Robert Aspinall; 8. Teachers unions in Mexico: the
politics of patronage Christopher Chambers-Ju and Leslie Finger; 9.
Teachers unions in India: diverse, powerful, and coercive Tara Beteille,
Geeta Gandhi Kingdon and Mohd Muzammil; 10. The comparative politics of
education: teachers unions and education systems across the world Terry
Moe.