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Howard Stevenson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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New Unionism? Teacher Unions, Social Partnership and School Governance in England and Wales
Local Government Studies, 2012Co-Authors: Howard StevensonAbstract:Abstract In the post-war period Teacher Unions in England and Wales have experienced considerable turbulence regarding their participation in the structures of system governance. Participation in governance had traditionally been conducted through the processes of collective bargaining until the abolition of national negotiating rights in 1987. After an extended period of exclusion from governance networks this situation was reversed in 2003 following the establishment of a ‘social partnership’ between employers and education Unions. This article draws on data from the Economic and Social Research Council funded project ‘Workforce remodelling, Teacher Trade Unions and school-based industrial relations’ to assess the significance of the social partnership for system governance. It combines empirical data from England and Wales with research frameworks drawing on Teacher union research in the USA to contrast social partnership with collective bargaining and to assess whether social partnership working repre...
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restructuring Teachers work and Trade union responses in england bargaining for change
American Educational Research Journal, 2007Co-Authors: Howard StevensonAbstract:A key feature of current school-sector reform in England is the restructuring of Teachers’ work and the increased use of support staff to undertake a range of activities previously undertaken by Teachers. Supporters speak of a new Teacher professionalism focused on the “core task” of teaching. Critics fear deprofessionalization through a process of deskilling, work intensification, and labor substitution. This article uses labor process theory and empirical data to analyze recent developments in Teachers’ work and links these to the different ways in which Teacher Trade Unions have bargained over reform. The article argues that workforce reform cannot be analyzed separately from the Trade union strategies that seek to influence policy and that the emergence of a type of “reform unionism” in England represents the integration of product and process in policy.
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On the Shopfloor: Exploring the Impact of Teacher Trade Unions on School-Based Industrial Relations.
School Leadership & Management, 2003Co-Authors: Howard StevensonAbstract:Teachers are highly unionised workers and their Trade Unions exert an important influence on the shaping and implementation of educational policy. Despite this importance there is relatively little analysis of the impact of Teacher Trade Unions in educational management literature. Very little empirical research has sought to establish the impact of Teacher Unions at school level. In an era of devolved management and quasi-markets this omission is significant. New personnel issues continue to emerge at school level and this may well generate increased Trade union activity at the workplace. This article explores the extent to which devolved management is drawing school-based union representation into a more prominent role. It argues that whilst there can be significant differences between individual schools, increased school autonomy is raising the profile of Trade union activity in the workplace, and this needs to be better reflected in educational management research.
Dominique Cau-bareille - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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"Obey", "disobey" or "tinker with" reforms to the system: a subject for French Teacher Trade Unions to work on.
Work, 2012Co-Authors: Dominique Cau-bareilleAbstract:This paper presents our work to support and train members of the teaching sectors of two Trade Unions. The aim was to encourage participants to discuss practices, the difficulties in their day-to-day work and impediments to taking action, given the current reforms to primary education, and thereby assess the reforms' impact on the Teachers' activity. It was also intended to help Trade Unions build up a collective dynamic around their work and re-positioning the work activity at the heart of their preoccupations. This project consisted of one/two day workshops held at local Trade union branches. They were led by an ergonomist and a Trade union representative. The discussions revealed that the prescriptions received from the management increasingly contradict the values of the profession. Therefore, in the name of professional ethics, different strategies of resistance have emerged, from minor modifications to the prescriptions received, to disobedience. However, adopting such strategies is itself a cause of suffering for teaching staff, and leads to some leaving the profession prematurely. We will discuss the difficulty Trade Unions have in dealing with the issue of work, their strategic positioning as regards developments within the profession, and the role an ergonomist can play in this process.
Alison Louise Milner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Bridging the Divide: Examining Professional Unity and the Extended Teacher Union Role in Sweden
Educational Policy, 2017Co-Authors: Alison Louise MilnerAbstract:Sweden has experienced increasing educational inequity levels within its highly decentralized school system. With a reduced capacity to bargain collectively, the two Swedish Teacher Trade Unions, the Swedish Teachers’ Union (Lararforbundet) and the National Union of Teachers in Sweden (Lararnas Riksforbund), have sought to extend their role in social unionism. This interpretive study explores the discourses of professionalism on which both Unions draw to reframe the narrative around issues of social justice and democracy. Using sociological and institutional theories, policy documents were analyzed to understand processes of theorization in the legitimation of change.
Halil Buyruk - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Current Developments in School Education in Turkey: education 'reforms' and Teacher Trade union responses
FORUM, 2015Co-Authors: Halil BuyrukAbstract:Education 'reforms' have been accelerated in the last decade in Turkey. Teachers, as the main actors of the education system, have developed a variety of responses to the reforms implemented in the field of education, both individually and collectively. They give directions to the change process in education by means of their Trade Unions. The Unions have played important roles in the generation and implementation of educational policies with the strategies that they have developed. This article aims to analyse current developments in school education in Turkey and Teacher Trade union responses against the 'reforms'. For this aim, firstly, the general structure of the education system in Turkey will be identified followed by an analysis of the neoliberal policies that are a feature of the Turkish system. Finally, Teacher Trade Unions' attitudes, compliance and resistance towards the 'education reforms' will be addressed in the context of the local dynamics of Turkey.
Pitt B - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Partnership between government and the non-government sector: a South African case study.
2001Co-Authors: Pitt BAbstract:Post-apartheid political and social changes in South Africa after 1994 created a new environment that fostered partnerships among nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) government and Trade Unions. This case study of one such partnership reflects some of the challenges in a government/civil society partnership that has the common goal of promoting the health of the school-going child. The partners for the project included Teacher Trade Unions the Education and Health Departments and Drumaide (an HIV/AIDS NGO). Its objective was to foster a collaborative effort to develop Teacher training packages that would enable Teachers to implement modern methods for teaching about health and life skills. A main outcome of the Health Promoting Schools Initiative was the ability of the partnership to agree on key objectives and draft a proposal for developing a these Teacher training packages. There was also a complimentary nature of the contributions from respective partners: the education department focused on ways in which the strategy could be incorporated into the curriculum the Trade Unions were concerned about the preparation and training of Teachers the health department focused on potential outcomes and how that could be achieved while the NGOs contribution identified the need to empower school communities and facilitate their participation in this process.
