Author: Publisher:
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Category : Labor movement
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
How Schools are Teaching about Labor
Author: Labor Relations in Education
Author: Todd A. DeMitchellPublisher: R&L Education
ISBN: 1607095858
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Collective bargaining in the public schools of the nation has its legal roots in the industrial labor model fashioned in the 1930s out of labor strife between union organizers and private businesses. This industrial union labor model was transplanted almost wholesale into the public sector over fifty years ago when teachers, fire and police personnel were granted the legislative right to collectively bargain their wages, benefits, and terms and conditions of employment in most states. What impact has this industrial model had on public education and on the relationship between teachers and administrators? Labor Relations in Education explores unions and collective bargaining in the public schools of America. The history of the laws, the politics of the response to collective bargaining and unions, and the practices of bargaining and managing a contract are explored in this volume. Changes that may move labor relations into professional relations and away from the industrial labor union model and diminish the schism that exists between educators are discussed. A fully developed simulation is included to employ the practices and concepts discussed in the book.
How Schools are Teaching about Labor
Author: AFL-CIO. Dept. of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Migrant Teachers
Author: Lora BartlettPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674726340
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Migrant Teachers investigates an overlooked trend in U.S. public schools today: the growing reliance on teachers trained overseas, as federal mandates require K-12 schools to employ qualified teachers or risk funding cuts. A narrowly technocratic view of teachers as subject specialists has led districts to look abroad, Lora Bartlett asserts, resulting in transient teaching professionals with little opportunity to connect meaningfully with students. Highly recruited by inner-city school districts that struggle to attract educators, approximately 90,000 teachers from the Philippines, India, and other countries came to the United States between 2002 and 2008. From administrators' perspective, these instructors are excellent employees--well educated and able to teach subjects like math, science, and special education where teachers are in short supply. Despite the additional recruitment of qualified teachers, American schools are failing to reap the possible benefits of the global labor market. Bartlett shows how the framing of these recruited teachers as stopgap, low-status workers cultivates a high-turnover, low-investment workforce that undermines the conditions needed for good teaching and learning. Bartlett calls on schools to provide better support to both overseas-trained teachers and their American counterparts.
Labor and Education
Author: Workers Education Bureau of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adult education
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Learning to Labor
Author: Paul E. WillisPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231053570
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Claims the rebellion of poor and working class children against school authority prepares them for working class jobs.
Educational Attitudes and Policies of Organized Labor in the United States
Author: Philip Raphael V. CuroePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Compulsory School Attendance and Child Labor
Author: Forest Chester EnsignPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Organizing the Curriculum
Author: Rob LinnéPublisher: Brill / Sense
ISBN: 9789087907198
Category : Labor movement
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Contemporary American youth live in a culture that ignores or denigrates labor unions. Mainstream media cover labor issues only sparingly and unions no longer play much of a role in popular culture texts, films, or images. In our schools labor has been limited to a footnote in textbooks instead of being treated seriously as the most effective force for championing the rights of working people--the vast majority of the citizenry. Teachers have been convinced that to bring up class or to teach about the labor movement may be construed as "taking sides," while the all-pervasive presence of corporate America in our schools is rarely questioned. So for all the talk of schools preparing young people for the work world, we are failing to teach them even the basics of how that world is structured or how they can be empowered through collective action. Organizing the Curriculum: Perspectives on Teaching the US Labor Movement is the first book-length treatment of this blind spot in contemporary curriculum and pedagogy. Contributors to this collection--unionists, activists, teachers, teacher educators, and academics--interrogate the ways in which knowledge is constructed in school discourses, conceptualize pedagogical strategies and curricula that open discussions around class analysis and political economy via studies of the labor movement, and put forward an activist vision of education that truly engages young people beyond the classroom walls.
Rethinking Globalization
Author: Bill BigelowPublisher: Rethinking Schools
ISBN: 0942961285
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Presents lessons and activities covering the topics of social justice and globalization.