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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2 June 2017 Datafication of education and professional organisation at heart of researchers’ discussions
The role of unions in helping teachers negotiate professional issues and the impact of data on education were standout topics during Education International’s Research Network.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 1 June 2017 Teacher union renewal: developing the power of the profession
Howard Stevenson
The challenges that face teachers often look very similar around the world. Global league tables are often behind the relentless pressure to drive test scores up, whilst the forces of global economic competition explain a race to the bottom on teachers’ working conditions. Teachers experience ever rising workloads, but perhaps...
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Leading the profession 31 May 2017 Constructing Teachers’ Professional Identity – learning from seven countries
Philippa Cordingley
Early stages in research projects are always a mix of aspirations, exploration of the research literature and growing clarity about key questions. In a research project that is as important as the one funded by Education International, to explore how national policies and cultural factors influence the development of teachers’...
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Union renewal and development 31 May 2017 Education unions forge a pathway from research to advocacy
With an aim to research, refine, and resist, teachers’ unions are reinforcing their leading role at the cutting edge of research methods and practices at the 13th annual Education International Research Network meeting.
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Future of work in education 5 May 2017 Big Data or Small Data: What’s the key to unlocking learning opportunities?
Pasi Sahlberg
Some say that schools don’t change. Many things may have remained the same but one thing is new: data. Today the walls of principals’ offices display performance results and data walls in teachers’ lounges highlight whether students have accomplished their learning targets. Data has become hot currency in school reforms.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 3 May 2017 It’s time to look carefully at where testing fails to make the grade
Steffen Handal
Teacher unions have for a long time expressed concern about the growing scope of international tests. In this post, I will point out some of the reasons why Union of Education Norway is especially critical to the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). I will also point to some alternative...
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Leading the profession 3 May 2017 Review. The Global Education Race. Sellar, Thompson and Rutkowski. Brush Education Inc 2017.
Martin Henry, John Bangs
The number of countries which take part in the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is now well over double the number of OECD member countries. If there is one thing which demonstrates just how far PISA has pulled in front of other global assessments of education, it is...
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Union renewal and development 6 April 2017 USA: International symposium puts teachers at core of curriculum development
Breadth of learning, improved curricula and skills adapted to the 21st Century were at the heart of a recent international symposium in Washington, USA.
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Leading the profession 14 December 2016 Global education community reacts to latest PISA report
The release of the OECD’s 2015 PISA report has the education community around the world abuzz, and Education International’s affiliates and partners have shared their wide spectrum of views in response.
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Leading the profession 18 November 2016 ResNet Africa: Collaboration on tools for quality research
Researchers and union leaders at Education International’s Research Network Africa learnt how to use online tools and develop in-depth approaches to qualitative interviews during dynamic and practical skill-focused sessions.
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Leading the profession 17 November 2016 African research leaders ready to influence education policy development and develop quality education
African researchers and union leaders are coming together in Accra, Ghana, to showcase the use by African education unions of compelling evidence-based research to strengthen their advocacy work and shape education policy.
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Leading the profession 13 May 2016 Union renewal for positive and improved collective bargaining
New ways for education unions to shape learning and working conditions, develop and enact policy, and enhance professional knowledge and professional learning were outlined at the 12th Education International Research Network.
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Leading the profession 12 May 2016 Act globally, research locally
Education researchers gathered at the 12th Research Network highlighted the need to collect evidence at global and regional levels linked to teachers’ working conditions and the negative impact of privatisation in education.
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Leading the profession 6 March 2016 Teacher Summit puts teachers at the heart of their professional development
With global events as the backdrop in Berlin for the Summit on the teaching profession, teacher unions made their message clear: teachers must be at the centre of their professional development.
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Leading the profession 20 October 2015 World Statistics Day cuts through the rhetoric and focuses on the facts that drive decisions
Although statistics may not spark everyone’s interest, the importance of data and its role in shaping decisions and policies is indisputable, and when it comes to education the stats don’t lie.
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Leading the profession 11 October 2015 Resolution on trade union action to counteract neoliberal policies on education
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Leading the profession 25 July 2015 Resolution on public research and the environmental crisis
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Leading the profession 4 July 2014 NEA launches campaign to end toxic testing
The campaign for equity and against toxic testing is preparing to narrow its focus to target assessments and develop real accountability systems to improve education in the United States.
NEA launches campaign to end toxic testing